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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-07-06 05:55

Modified

2026-07-06 06:18

Summary

Mastodon: Removal of integrity-protected JSON entries from signed activities

Details

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to 4.5.10, 4.4.17, and 4.3.23, Mastodon's normalization of incoming activities signed with Linked-Data Signatures does not sufficiently protect the activities from a certain class of spoofing, allowing threat actors to remove JSON entries from valid signed activities from a third-party actor. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.10, 4.4.17, and 4.3.23.

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  "id": "BIT-mastodon-2026-48028",
  "modified": "2026-07-06T06:18:57.499Z",
  "published": "2026-07-06T05:55:20.384Z",
  "references": [
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      "type": "WEB",
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    }
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CVE-2026-48028 (GCVE-0-2026-48028)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-24 19:43 – Updated: 2026-06-25 13:26

Title

Mastodon: Removal of integrity-protected JSON entries from signed activities

Summary

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-06-25 13:26 UTC

CWE

CWE-354 - Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/adv…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
mastodon	mastodon	Affected: >= 4.5.0-beta.1, < 4.5.10 Affected: >= 4.4.0-beta.1, < 4.4.17 Affected: < 4.3.23

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