CVE-2026-22246
January 08, 2026
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.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v4.5.0-beta.1 <v4.5.4Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v4.5.4https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v0.1.0 <v4.3.17Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v4.3.17https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v4.4.0-beta.1 <v4.4.11Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v4.4.11Related ResourcesĀ (4)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
7.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
6.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data
EPSS
Base Score:
0.04