Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2026-08-17 05:46
Modified
2026-08-17 06:10
Summary
Mastodon: Exhausting data by an unauthenticated request to the admin retention API
Details

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to 4.4.21, 4.5.14, 4.6.4, and 4.7.0, the administrative statistics endpoints handled by Api::V1::Admin::MeasuresController and Api::V1::Admin::RetentionController checked authorization only after beginning expensive calculations. Anonymous callers could submit keys, start_at, and end_at parameters that caused long-running SQL queries in Admin::Metrics::Measure, Admin::Metrics::Retention, and Admin::Metrics::Dimension::BaseDimension, allowing repeated requests to exhaust server resources. This issue is fixed in versions 4.4.21, 4.5.14, 4.6.4, and 4.7.0.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "mastodon",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/mastodon"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.4.21"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "4.5.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.5.14"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "4.6.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.6.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-72914"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:joinmastodon:mastodon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to 4.4.21, 4.5.14, 4.6.4, and 4.7.0, the administrative statistics endpoints handled by Api::V1::Admin::MeasuresController and Api::V1::Admin::RetentionController checked authorization only after beginning expensive calculations. Anonymous callers could submit keys, start_at, and end_at parameters that caused long-running SQL queries in Admin::Metrics::Measure, Admin::Metrics::Retention, and Admin::Metrics::Dimension::BaseDimension, allowing repeated requests to exhaust server resources. This issue is fixed in versions 4.4.21, 4.5.14, 4.6.4, and 4.7.0.",
  "id": "BIT-mastodon-2026-72914",
  "modified": "2026-08-17T06:10:32.268Z",
  "published": "2026-08-17T05:46:36.585Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/18c61f286f1f5718a8f517940ba384866ffa3892"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/467c933459c7d0e5513475b9e4888afaedfb1074"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/930aa9fee26bf9eaefe27826fa1061288d83373b"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/da47a1bd3cd07935d7ca55a1f4f1a76f7f167e0d"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.21"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.14"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.0-beta.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-7jvv-fhmg-wpfw"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72914"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Mastodon: Exhausting data by an unauthenticated request to the admin retention API"
}



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