Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to versions 4.2.7, 4.1.15, 4.0.15, and 3.5.19, when fetching remote statuses, Mastodon doesn't check that the response from the remote server has a `Content-Type` header value of the Activity Streams media type, which allows a threat actor to upload a crafted Activity Streams document to a remote server and make a Mastodon server fetch it, if the remote server accepts arbitrary user uploads. The vulnerability allows a threat actor to impersonate an account on a remote server that satisfies all of the following properties: allows the attacker to register an account; accepts arbitrary user-uploaded documents and places them on the same domain as the ActivityPub actors; and serves user-uploaded document in response to requests with an `Accept` header value of the Activity Streams media type. Versions 4.2.7, 4.1.15, 4.0.15, and 3.5.19 contain a fix for this issue.
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Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Joinmastodon
Joinmastodon mastodon
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:joinmastodon:mastodon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Joinmastodon
Joinmastodon mastodon

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2024-02-19T15:28:15.296Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T23:44:09.828Z

Reserved: 2024-02-08T22:26:33.511Z

Link: CVE-2024-25623

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T23:44:09.828Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-02-19T16:15:51.847

Modified: 2024-12-18T22:39:17.437

Link: CVE-2024-25623

cve-icon Redhat

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