Mastodon: Unwanted deactivation of SSL/TLS certificate verification
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to 4.4.19 and from 4.5.0 until 4.5.12, Mastodon's app/models/concerns/user/ldap_authenticable.rb mutates OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext::DEFAULT_PARAMS when LDAP authentication uses LDAP_TLS_NO_VERIFY=true, disabling SSL and TLS certificate verification globally for requests made by puma web processes while sidekiq background jobs remain unaffected. This issue is fixed in versions 4.4.19 and 4.5.12.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-59825US | — | — | ||
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to 4.4.19 and from 4.5.0 until 4.5.12, Mastodon's app/models/concerns/user/ldap_authenticable.rb m… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/2ccb6ef277e725d1932295690cf8ab9d3dc03149WEB
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/5748d0b16ea09001e0933f76c7afe814e09652efWEB
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/761c61b42590a2fd91442fc15a0a7583e48bbea4WEB
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39571WEB
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.19WEB
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.12WEB
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-3rhr-8phh-jm86WEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59825WEB
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