CVE-2022-46405 (GCVE-0-2022-46405)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-04 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-24 15:19
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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