CVE-2024-37903 (GCVE-0-2024-37903)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-05 17:24 – Updated: 2024-08-02 04:04
VLAI
Title
Mastodon has improper authorship check on audience extension for existing posts
Summary
Mastodon is a self-hosted, federated microblogging platform. Starting in version 2.6.0 and prior to versions 4.1.18 and 4.2.10, by crafting specific activities, an attacker can extend the audience of a post they do not own to other Mastodon users on a target server, thus gaining access to the contents of a post not intended for them. Versions 4.1.18 and 4.2.10 contain a patch for this issue.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-31 19:04 UTC
CWE
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
mastodon mastodon Affected: >= 2.6.0, < 4.1.18
Affected: >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.10
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joinmastodon mastodon Affected: 2.6.0 , < 4.1.18 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:joinmastodon:mastodon:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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joinmastodon mastodon Affected: 4.2.0 , < 4.2.10 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:joinmastodon:mastodon:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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