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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2026-50129

Mastodon: Persistent anonymous DoS via unhandled NoMethodError in MATH_TRANSFORMER

Description

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to 4.5.11, 4.4.18, and 4.3.24, a DoS can be triggered by (Uncaught Exception vulerability), due to missing exception handling in the math sanitizer. Malformed <math> nodes can result in a DoS of a whole server or targeted users services, depending on the type of action that includes the malformed nodes and the services interacting with it. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.11, 4.4.18, and 4.3.24.

Affected products

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

mastodon mastodon

  • >= 4.5.0-beta.1, < 4.5.11affected
  • >= 4.4.0-beta.1, < 4.4.18affected
  • < 4.3.24affected

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