Mastodon: Exhausting data by an unauthenticated request to the admin retention API
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to 4.4.21, 4.5.14, 4.6.4, and 4.7.0, the administrative statistics endpoints handled by Api::V1::Admin::MeasuresController and Api::V1::Admin::RetentionController checked authorization only after beginning expensive calculations. Anonymous callers could submit keys, start_at, and end_at parameters that caused long-running SQL queries in Admin::Metrics::Measure, Admin::Metrics::Retention, and Admin::Metrics::Dimension::BaseDimension, allowing repeated requests to exhaust server resources. This issue is fixed in versions 4.4.21, 4.5.14, 4.6.4, and 4.7.0.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-72914US | — | — | ||
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to 4.4.21, 4.5.14, 4.6.4, and 4.7.0-beta.1, the administrative statistics endpoints handled by Api… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/18c61f286f1f5718a8f517940ba384866ffa3892WEB
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/467c933459c7d0e5513475b9e4888afaedfb1074WEB
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/930aa9fee26bf9eaefe27826fa1061288d83373bWEB
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/da47a1bd3cd07935d7ca55a1f4f1a76f7f167e0dWEB
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.21WEB
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.14WEB
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.4WEB
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.0-beta.1WEB
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