CVE-2025-62176 (GCVE-0-2025-62176)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-13 21:04 – Updated: 2025-10-14 13:53
VLAI
Title
Mastadon streaming server allows OAuth clients without the `read` scope to subscribe to public channels
Summary
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. In Mastodon before 4.4.6, 4.3.14, and 4.2.27, the streaming server accepts serving events for public timelines to clients using any valid authentication token, even if those tokens lack the read:statuses scope. This allows OAuth clients without the read scope to subscribe to public channels and receive public timeline events. The impact is limited, as this only affects new public posts published on the public timelines and requires an otherwise valid token, but this may lead to unexpected access to public posts in a limited-federation setting. This issue has been patched in versions 4.4.6, 4.3.14, and 4.2.27. No known workarounds exist.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-14 13:52 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-280 - Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mastodon mastodon Affected: >= 4.4.0-beta.1, < 4.4.6
Affected: >= 4.3.0-beta.1, < 4.3.14
Affected: < 4.2.27
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