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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.2 High

CVE-2026-41259

Mastodon: Insufficient verification of email addresses

Description

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to v4.5.9, v4.4.16, and v4.3.22, Mastodon allows restricting new user sign-up based on e-mail domain names, and performs basic validation on e-mail addresses, but fails to restrict characters that are interpreted differently by some mailing servers. This vulnerability is fixed in v4.5.9, v4.4.16, and v4.3.22.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

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  • < 4.3.22affected
  • >= 4.4.0-beta.1, < 4.4.16affected
  • >= 4.5.0-beta.1, < 4.5.9affected

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