CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-23832

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Published: Feb 01, 2024 | Modified: Feb 09, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub Mastodon allows configuration of LDAP for authentication. Due to insufficient origin validation in all Mastodon, attackers can impersonate and take over any remote account. Every Mastodon version prior to 3.5.17 is vulnerable, as well as 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.13, 4.1.x version prior to 4.1.13, and 4.2.x versions prior to 4.2.5.

Weakness

This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mastodon Joinmastodon * 3.5.17 (excluding)
Mastodon Joinmastodon 4.0.0 (including) 4.0.13 (excluding)
Mastodon Joinmastodon 4.1.0 (including) 4.1.13 (excluding)
Mastodon Joinmastodon 4.2.0 (including) 4.2.5 (excluding)

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