Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2025-27157
CVE-2025-27157
Description
Mastodon is a self-hosted, federated microblogging platform. Starting in version 4.2.0 and prior to versions 4.2.16 and 4.3.4, the rate limits are missing on /auth/setup. Without those rate limits, an attacker can craft requests that will send an email to an arbitrary addresses. Versions 4.2.16 and 4.3.4 fix the issue.
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