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CVE-2024-37903 Detail

Description

Mastodon is a self-hosted, federated microblogging platform. Starting in version 2.6.0 and prior to versions 4.1.18 and 4.2.10, by crafting specific activities, an attacker can extend the audience of a post they do not own to other Mastodon users on a target server, thus gaining access to the contents of a post not intended for them. Versions 4.1.18 and 4.2.10 contain a patch for this issue.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/a1c7aae28aecf06659c5b18cfa131b37cd1512a3 CVE, GitHub, Inc. Patch 
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/d4bf22b632ea8b1174375c4966a6768ab66393b6 CVE, GitHub, Inc. Patch 
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.1.18 CVE, GitHub, Inc. Release Notes 
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.10 CVE, GitHub, Inc. Release Notes 
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-xjvf-fm67-4qc3 CVE, GitHub, Inc. Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-862 Missing Authorization GitHub, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-37903
NVD Published Date:
07/05/2024
NVD Last Modified:
06/24/2025
Source:
GitHub, Inc.