Medium severity · published Jan 8, 2026
CVE-2026-22246
Local Mastodon users can enumerate and access severed relationships of every other local user
4.3
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Mastodon 4.3 added notifications of severed relationships, allowing end-users to inspect the relationships they lost as the result of a moderation action. The code allowing users to download lists of severed relationships for a particular event fails to check the owner of the list before returning the lost relationships. Any registered local user can access the list of lost followers and followed users caused by any severance event, and go through all severance events this way. The leaked information does not include the name of the account which has lost follows and followers. This has been fixed in Mastodon v4.3.17, v4.4.11 and v4.5.4.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 19% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MA
mastodon · mastodon
< 4.3.17; >= 4.4.0-beta.1, < 4.4.11; >= 4.5.0-beta.1, < 4.5.4 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-22246
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-22246
Patch
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/68e30985ca7afdb89af1b2e9dc962e1993dc8076
Patch
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/b2bcd34486fd6681cc0f30028086ef0f47282adf
Patch
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/c1fb6893c5175d74c074f6f786d504c8bc610d57
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-ww85-x9cp-5v24
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