CVE-2026-72914

highpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.008 · 57 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.83% (57th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

6 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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::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-beta.1.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.9–7.5

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-405USCWE-770US

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

mastodon mastodon≤ < 4.4.21enisa_euvdEU
mastodon mastodon4.5.0-beta.1, → 4.5.14enisa_euvdEU
mastodon mastodon4.6.0-beta.1, → 4.6.4enisa_euvdEU
Bitnami mastodon< 4.4.21osvUSpkg:bitnami/mastodon
Bitnami mastodon4.5.0 → 4.5.14osvUSpkg:bitnami/mastodon
Bitnami mastodon4.6.0 → 4.6.4osvUSpkg:bitnami/mastodon

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

BIT-mastodon-2026-72914Mastodon: Exhausting data by an unauthenticated request to the admin retention API2026-08-17vendor · osvUS
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.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2026-08-10modified 2026-09-09

references (27)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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