CVE-2024-37903— Mastodon has improper authorship check on audience extension for existing posts
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2024-37903
Vulnerability Information
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Vulnerability Title
Mastodon has improper authorship check on audience extension for existing posts
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability 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.
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
授权机制缺失
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Title
Mastodon 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Mastodon是一款基于ActivityPub的开源社交网络服务器。 Mastodon 2.6.0至4.1.18和4.2.10之前版本存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于攻击者通过精心策划特定活动，将不属于他们自己的帖子的受众扩展到目标服务器上的其他用户，从而获得不属于他们帖子内容的访问权限。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Affected Products
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- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.1.18x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.10x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-xjvf-fm67-4qc3x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37903
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