Mastodon through 4.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (large Sidekiq pull queue) by creating bot accounts that follow attacker-controlled accounts on certain other servers associated with a wildcard DNS A record, such that there is uncontrolled recursion of attacker-generated messages.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-12-04T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-03T14:31:46.361Z

Reserved: 2022-12-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-46405

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-04T04:15:09.380

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:30:32.440

Link: CVE-2022-46405

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