CVE 3.7 LOW

Mastodon Error Handling Discrepancy Enables Private Status Existence Enumeration_CVE-2025-67500

3.7 / 10
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-67500
Source GitHub_M
Published Dec 9, 2025 at 23:44

Affected Product

Vendor mastodon
Product mastodon
Version < 4.2.28
Affected Versions mastodon mastodon < 4.2.28
mastodon mastodon >= 4.3.0-beta.1, < 4.3.15
mastodon mastodon >= 4.4.0-beta.1, < 4.4.10
mastodon mastodon >= 4.5.0-beta.1, < 4.2.28

CWE Classification

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