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CVE-2026-72914

Mastodon: Exhausting data by an unauthenticated request to the admin retention API PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to 4.4.21, 4.5.14, 4.6.4, and 4.7.0-beta.1, the administrative statistics endpoints handled by Api::V1::Admin::MeasuresController and Api::V1::Admin::RetentionController checked authorization only after beginning expensive calculations. Anonymous callers could submit keys, start_at, and end_at parameters that caused long-running SQL queries in Admin::Metrics::Measure, Admin::Metrics::Retention, and Admin::Metrics::Dimension::BaseDimension, allowing repeated requests to exhaust server resources. This issue is fixed in versions 4.4.21, 4.5.14, 4.6.4, and 4.7.0-beta.1.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
mastodon / mastodonaffected < 4.4.21; affected >= 4.5.0-beta.1, < 4.5.14; affected >= 4.6.0-beta.1, < 4.6.4

CWE

CWE-405, CWE-770

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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