CVE-2025-62175

Mastodon streaming API fails to disconnect disabled and suspended users

State
Published
Severity
4.3 Medium
Published
Oct 13, 2025
Updated
Oct 14, 2025
Reserved
Oct 7, 2025

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Description

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. In versions before 4.4.6, 4.3.14, and 4.2.27, disabling or suspending a user account does not disconnect the account from the streaming API. This allows disabled or suspended accounts to continue receiving real-time updates through existing streaming connections and to establish new streaming connections, even though they cannot interact with other API endpoints. This undermines moderation actions, as administrators expect disabled or suspended accounts to be fully disconnected from the service. This issue has been patched in versions 4.4.6, 4.3.14, and 4.2.27. No known workarounds exist.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-273 Improper Check for Dropped Privileges
  • CWE-274 Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges

Affected Products

ProductVersions
mastodonmastodon
  • >= 4.4.0-beta.1, < 4.4.6Affected
  • >= 4.3.0-beta.1, < 4.3.14Affected
  • < 4.2.27Affected

References

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