CVE-2025-67500
lowpriority · track · 15EPSS 0.002 · 13 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Versions 4.2.27 and prior, 4.3.0-beta.1 through 4.3.14, 4.4.0-beta.1 through 4.4.9, 4.5.0-beta.1 through 4.5.2 have discrepancies in error handling which allow checking whether a given status exists by sending a request with a non-English Accept-Language header. Using this behavior, an attacker who knows the identifier of a particular status they are not allowed to see can confirm whether this status exists or not. This cannot be used to learn the contents of the status or any other property besides its existence. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.28, 4.3.15, 4.4.10 and 4.5.3.
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affected products (12)
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advisories (1)
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- BIT-mastodon-2025-67500Mastodon Error Handling Discrepancy Enables Private Status Existence Enumeration2025-12-11vendor · osvUS
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Versions 4.2.27 and prior, 4.3.0 through 4.3.14, 4.4.0 through 4.4.9, 4.5.0 through 4.5.2 have discrepancies in error handling which allow checking whether a given status exists by sending a request with a non-English Accept-Language header. Using this behavior, an attacker who knows the identifier of a particular status they are not allowed to see can confirm whether this status exists or not. This cannot be used to learn the contents of the status or any other property besides its existence. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.28, 4.3.15, 4.4.10 and 4.5.3.
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references (7)
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- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/37077/commits/9957d3218cb33fea6a44bb285e2ba4795a059e4fcnnvd
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releasesPatchcnnvd
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-gwhw-gcjx-72v8cnnvd
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/37077/commits/9957d3218cb33fea6a44bb285e2ba4795a059e4fenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-gwhw-gcjx-72v8enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/37077/commits/9957d3218cb33fea6a44bb285e2ba4795a059e4fPatchnvd
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-gwhw-gcjx-72v8Vendor Advisorynvd
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