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Medium 6.5Published Jun 24, 2026

CVE-2026-48028Mastodon: Removal of integrity-protected JSON entries from signed activities

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to 4.5.10, 4.4.17, and 4.3.23, Mastodon's normalization of incoming activities signed with Linked-Data Signatures does not sufficiently protect the activities from a certain class of spoofing, allowing threat actors to remove JSON entries from valid signed activities from a third-party actor. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.10, 4.4.17, and 4.3.23.

CVSS
6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-354
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
GitHub_M
NVD analysis
Deferred
Record last updated
Jun 25, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
mastodon mastodon
mastodon:mastodon (from the name)
from 4.5.0-beta.1, < 4.5.10; from 4.4.0-beta.1, < 4.4.17; before 4.3.23
CNA record

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