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Lagging Mastodon admins urged to patch critical account takeover flaw (CVE-2024-23832)
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2023-36460 | Mastodon: 4.0.5, and 4.1.3, attackers using carefully crafted media files can cause Mastodon's media processing code to create arbitrary… | 9.9 | 40% | ||
| CVE-2024-23832 | Mastodon: Due to insufficient origin validation in all Mastodon, attackers can impersonate and take over any remote account. Every Mastodon… | 9.8 | 2% |
From the original article
2 min read at helpnetsecurity.com
Five days after Mastodon developers pushed out fixes for a remotely exploitable account takeover vulnerability (CVE-2024-23832), over 66% of Mastodon servers out there have been upgraded to close the hole. Mastodon is open-source (server) software for running self-hosted social networking services within the wider Fediverse .
By @zeljkazorz · helpnetsecurity.com
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