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CVE-2024-25623

Lack of media type verification of Activity Streams objects allows impersonation of remote accounts PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to versions 4.2.7, 4.1.15, 4.0.15, and 3.5.19, when fetching remote statuses, Mastodon doesn't check that the response from the remote server has a `Content-Type` header value of the Activity Streams media type, which allows a threat actor to upload a crafted Activity Streams document to a remote server and make a Mastodon server fetch it, if the remote server accepts arbitrary user uploads. The vulnerability allows a threat actor to impersonate an account on a remote server that satisfies all of the following properties: allows the attacker to register an account; accepts arbitrary user-uploaded documents and places them on the same domain as the ActivityPub actors; and serves user-uploaded document in response to requests with an `Accept` header value of the Activity Streams media type. Versions 4.2.7, 4.1.15, 4.0.15, and 3.5.19 contain a fix for this issue.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
mastodon / mastodonaffected < 3.5.19; affected >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.15; affected >= 4.1.0, < 4.1.15; affected >= 4.2.0, < 4.2.7

CWE

CWE-434

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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CVE

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