Mastodon Social Network Patches Critical Flaws Allowing Server Takeover

Mastodon, a popular decentralized social network, has released a security update to fix critical vulnerabilities that could expose millions of users to potential attacks. Mastodon is known for its federated model, consisting of thousands of separate servers called "instances," and it has over 14...

CVE-2023-36460 Mastodon vulnerable to arbitrary file creation through media attachments

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Starting in version 3.5.0 and prior to versions 3.5.9, 4.0.5, and 4.1.3, attackers using carefully crafted media files can cause Mastodon's media processing code to create arbitrary files at any location. This allows...

CVE-2023-36460

CVE-2023-36460 affects Mastodon before the patches: 3.5.0–3.5.8, 4.0.0–4.0.4, and 4.1.0–4.1.2. A media processing flaw allows crafted media files to cause arbitrary files to be created or overwritten at any location the instance can access, enabling Denial of Service and arbitrary Remote Code Exe...