CVE-2026-54742

Lemmy: `CollectionAdd::Featured` does not check the post is in the community

State
Published
Severity
5.1 Medium
Published
Aug 19, 2026
Updated
Aug 20, 2026
Reserved
Jun 15, 2026

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Description

Lemmy is a link aggregator and forum for the fediverse. From 0.19.18 until 0.19.19 and 1.0.0-alpha.20, a community moderator can feature or unfeature posts in other communities through federated CollectionAdd and CollectionRemove activities using CollectionType::Featured. After verify_mod_action authorizes the actor against self.community(), the receive handlers in crates/apub/activities/src/community/collection_add.rs and crates/apub/activities/src/community/collection_remove.rs dereference self.object as an ApubPost and update featured_community without verifying that post.community_id equals community.id. A moderator can therefore target an unrelated post owned by another community, push it into featured feeds and listings, or undo another community's legitimate curation decision. This issue is fixed in versions 0.19.19 and 1.0.0-alpha.20.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.05.1 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
lemmyLemmyNet
  • < 0.19.19Affected
  • >= 1.0.0-alpha.0, < 1.0.0-alpha.20Affected

References

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