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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-31 18:21

Modified

2025-05-20 10:02

Summary

External OpenID Connect Account Takeover by E-Mail Change in mastodon

Details

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Mastodon allows new identities from configured authentication providers (CAS, SAML, OIDC) to attach to existing local users with the same e-mail address. This results in a possible account takeover if the authentication provider allows changing the e-mail address or multiple authentication providers are configured. When a user logs in through an external authentication provider for the first time, Mastodon checks the e-mail address passed by the provider to find an existing account. However, using the e-mail address alone means that if the authentication provider allows changing the e-mail address of an account, the Mastodon account can immediately be hijacked. All users logging in through external authentication providers are affected. The severity is medium, as it also requires the external authentication provider to misbehave. However, some well-known OIDC providers (like Microsoft Azure) make it very easy to accidentally allow unverified e-mail changes. Moreover, OpenID Connect also allows dynamic client registration. This issue has been addressed in versions 4.2.6, 4.1.14, 4.0.14, and 3.5.18. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "mastodon",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/mastodon"
      },
      "ranges": [
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          "events": [
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              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.5.18"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "4.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.0.14"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "4.1.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.1.14"
            },
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            },
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          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-25618"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:joinmastodon:mastodon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Mastodon allows new identities from configured authentication providers (CAS, SAML, OIDC) to attach to existing local users with the same e-mail address. This results in a possible account takeover if the authentication provider allows changing the e-mail address or multiple authentication providers are configured. When a user logs in through an external authentication provider for the first time, Mastodon checks the e-mail address passed by the provider to find an existing account. However, using the e-mail address alone means that if the authentication provider allows changing the e-mail address of an account, the Mastodon account can immediately be hijacked. All users logging in through external authentication providers are affected. The severity is medium, as it also requires the external authentication provider to misbehave. However, some well-known OIDC providers (like Microsoft Azure) make it very easy to accidentally allow unverified e-mail changes. Moreover, OpenID Connect also allows dynamic client registration. This issue has been addressed in versions 4.2.6, 4.1.14, 4.0.14, and 3.5.18. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.",
  "id": "BIT-mastodon-2024-25618",
  "modified": "2025-05-20T10:02:07.006Z",
  "published": "2024-03-31T18:21:20.227Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/b31af34c9716338e4a32a62cc812d1ca59e88d15"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-vm39-j3vx-pch3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-25618"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "External OpenID Connect Account Takeover by E-Mail Change in mastodon"
}

CVE-2024-25618 (GCVE-0-2024-25618)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-14 20:45 – Updated: 2025-05-12 15:16

Title

External OpenID Connect Account Takeover by E-Mail Change in mastodon

Summary

Severity ?

4.2 (Medium)


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

CWE

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/adv…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/b31af…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	mastodon	mastodon	Affected: >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.6 Affected: >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.14 Affected: >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.14 Affected: < 3.5.18

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Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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CVE-2024-25618 (GCVE-0-2024-25618)

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