Medium (4.8) in joinmastodon mastodon. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. In versions on the 4.5.x branch prior to 4.5.8 and on the 4.4.x branch prior to 4.4.15, an attacker that knows of a quote before it has reached a server can prevent it from being correctly processed on that server. The vulnerability has been patched in Mastodon 4.5.8 and 4.4.15. Mastodon 4.3 and earlier are not affected because they do not support quotes.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
4.8 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 6% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)