Lack of media type verification of Activity Streams objects allows impersonation of remote accounts
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to versions 4.2.7, 4.1.15, 4.0.15, and 3.5.19, when fetching remote statuses, Mastodon doesn't check that the response from the remote server has a `Content-Type` header value of the Activity Streams media type, which allows a threat actor to upload a crafted Activity Streams document to a remote server and make a Mastodon server fetch it, if the remote server accepts arbitrary user uploads. The vulnerability allows a threat actor to impersonate an account on a remote server that satisfies all of the following properties: allows the attacker to register an account; accepts arbitrary user-uploaded documents and places them on the same domain as the ActivityPub actors; and serves user-uploaded document in response to requests with an `Accept` header value of the Activity Streams media type. Versions 4.2.7, 4.1.15, 4.0.15, and 3.5.19 contain a fix for this issue.
Problem Types
Type | CWE ID | Description |
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CWE | CWE-434 | CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type |
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
Metrics
Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
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3.1 | 8.5 | HIGH | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N |
Version: 3.1
Base score: 8.5
Base severity: HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N