Vulnerability CVE-2022-46405


Published: 2022-12-04

Description:
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.

 References:
https://hackmd.io/rD9nsTz1QeuPT-erxqjY-A
https://borg.social/notes/98bcoo2t1n

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