cve-2025-30741
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-25 00:00
Modified
2025-03-26 14:44
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Summary
Pixelfed before 0.12.5 allows anyone to follow private accounts and see private posts on other Fediverse servers. This affects users elsewhere in the Fediverse, if they otherwise have any followers from a Pixelfed instance.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/releases/tag/v0.12.5
cve@mitre.orghttps://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/114215925957179498
cve@mitre.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43474425
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Pixelfed Pixelfed Version: 0   ≤
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