{"id":"BIT-mastodon-2022-46405","details":"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.","aliases":["CVE-2022-46405"],"modified":"2026-09-08T08:48:13.025980531Z","published":"2024-03-06T10:57:12.594Z","database_specific":{"severity":"High","cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:joinmastodon:mastodon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"]},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://borg.social/notes/98bcoo2t1n"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://hackmd.io/rD9nsTz1QeuPT-erxqjY-A"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-46405"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mastodon","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/mastodon"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.0.3"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/mastodon/BIT-mastodon-2022-46405.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}