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CVE-2022-46405
Published: Dec 4, 2022
Modified: Apr 24, 2025
PUBLISHED
Description
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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