CVE-2022-46405

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://borg.social/notes/98bcoo2t1n
• https://hackmd.io/rD9nsTz1QeuPT-erxqjY-A

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://borg.social/notes/98bcoo2t1n
• https://hackmd.io/rD9nsTz1QeuPT-erxqjY-A

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