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.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2022-12-04T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-04-24T15:19:38.915Z
Reserved: 2022-12-04T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2022-46405

Updated: 2024-08-03T14:31:46.361Z

Status : Modified
Published: 2022-12-04T04:15:09.380
Modified: 2025-04-24T16:15:24.133
Link: CVE-2022-46405

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