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CVE-2026-59825

Mastodon: Unwanted deactivation of SSL/TLS certificate verification

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.4.19, 4.5.12
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to 4.4.19 and from 4.5.0 until 4.5.12, Mastodon's app/models/concerns/user/ldap_authenticable.rb mutates OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext::DEFAULT_PARAMS when LDAP authentication uses LDAP_TLS_NO_VERIFY=true, disabling SSL and TLS certificate verification globally for requests made by puma web processes while sidekiq background jobs remain unaffected. This issue is fixed in versions 4.4.19 and 4.5.12.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • mastodon mastodon

    fixed in 4.4.19; From 4.5.0 · fixed in 4.5.12

References 7

GitHub · mastodon/mastodon