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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-11-06 15:08

Modified

2025-11-06 15:44

Summary

Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in mastodon/mastodon

Details

Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in GitHub repository mastodon/mastodon prior to 4.0.0.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "mastodon",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/mastodon"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.5.6"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-2166"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:joinmastodon:mastodon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Critical"
  },
  "details": "Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in GitHub repository mastodon/mastodon prior to 4.0.0.",
  "id": "BIT-mastodon-2022-2166",
  "modified": "2025-11-06T15:44:17.098Z",
  "published": "2025-11-06T15:08:22.357Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/21fd25a269cca742af431f0d13299e139f267346"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://huntr.dev/bounties/2f96f990-01c2-44ea-ae47-58bdb3aa455b"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2166"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in mastodon/mastodon"
}

CVE-2022-2166 (GCVE-0-2022-2166)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-16 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-29 20:30

Title

Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in mastodon/mastodon

Summary

Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts in GitHub repository mastodon/mastodon prior to 4.0.0.

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-307 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

Assigner

@huntrdev

References

URL

Tags

	https://huntr.dev/bounties/2f96f990-01c2-44ea-ae4…
	https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/21fd2…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	mastodon	mastodon/mastodon	Affected: unspecified , < 4.0.0 (custom)

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            ],
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          }
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                  }
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            "baseSeverity": "CRITICAL",
            "confidentialityImpact": "HIGH",
            "integrityImpact": "HIGH",
            "privilegesRequired": "NONE",
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    "dateReserved": "2022-06-22T00:00:00.000Z",
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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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CVE-2022-2166 (GCVE-0-2022-2166)

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