CVE-2026-72914

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-beta.1, 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-beta.1.
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Published : 2026-08-10 22:17

Updated : 2026-09-09 20:55


NVD link : CVE-2026-72914

Mitre link : CVE-2026-72914

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-72914


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CWE
CWE-405

Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling