CVE-2026-50129 PUBLISHED

Mastodon: Persistent anonymous DoS via unhandled NoMethodError in MATH_TRANSFORMER

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 03.06.2026 Published: 24.06.2026 Updated: 25.06.2026

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to 4.5.11, 4.4.18, and 4.3.24, a DoS can be triggered by (Uncaught Exception vulerability), due to missing exception handling in the math sanitizer. Malformed <math> nodes can result in a DoS of a whole server or targeted users services, depending on the type of action that includes the malformed nodes and the services interacting with it. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.11, 4.4.18, and 4.3.24.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor mastodon
Product mastodon
Versions
  • Version >= 4.5.0-beta.1, < 4.5.11 is affected
  • Version >= 4.4.0-beta.1, < 4.4.18 is affected
  • Version < 4.3.24 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-248: Uncaught Exception CWE