Mastodon through 4.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (large Sidekiq pull queue) by creating bot accounts that follow attacker-controlled accounts on certain other servers associated with a wildcard DNS A record, such that there is uncontrolled recursion of attacker-generated messages.
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:joinmastodon:mastodon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"source": "CPE_FIELD",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "4.0.2"
}
]
}