CVE-2026-22246 (GCVE-0-2026-22246)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-08 15:27 – Updated: 2026-01-08 15:54
VLAI?
Title
Local Mastodon users can enumerate and access severed relationships of every other local user
Summary
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Mastodon 4.3 added notifications of severed relationships, allowing end-users to inspect the relationships they lost as the result of a moderation action. The code allowing users to download lists of severed relationships for a particular event fails to check the owner of the list before returning the lost relationships. Any registered local user can access the list of lost followers and followed users caused by any severance event, and go through all severance events this way. The leaked information does not include the name of the account which has lost follows and followers. This has been fixed in Mastodon v4.3.17, v4.4.11 and v4.5.4.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-201 - Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data
Assigner
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
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- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
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