CVE-2022-46405
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.76%
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.
How to fix CVE-2022-46405
To remediate CVE-2022-46405, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Bitnami/mastodon—upgrade to 4.0.3 or later
Is CVE-2022-46405 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 4.0.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |