Mastodon: Spoofing of attribution domains

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  "id": "6beb89dd9860660295ce31c40284511f6b5fcb4fbdcc078ad50d7141309ebb8c",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-50128",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Mastodon: Spoofing of attribution domains",
    "summary": "Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. From 4.3.0 until 4.5.11 and 4.4.18, Mastodon has a feature to let websites credit authors of their articles. To prevent false attribution claims, Mastodon uses the attributionDomains JSON-LD term, however, an error in how it is defined makes Linked Data Signatures on the toot:attributionDomains property ineffective. An attacker can arbitrarily modify the attributionDomains value of a legitimately signed Update activity and bypass Mastodon’s signature verification. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.5.11 and 4.4.18.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-50128",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2026-50128",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-mastodon-2026-50128",
        "CVE-2026-50128"
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"
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              "repo": "https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon",
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                        "introduced": "4.5.0-beta.1"
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          "versions": [
            "v4.5.10",
            "v4.5.9",
            "v4.5.8",
            "v4.5.7",
            "v4.5.6",
            "v4.5.5",
            "v4.5.4",
            "v4.5.3",
            "v4.5.2",
            "v4.5.1",
            "v4.5.0",
            "v4.5.0-rc.3",
            "v4.5.0-rc.2",
            "v4.5.0-rc.1",
            "v4.5.0-beta.2",
            "v4.5.0-beta.1"
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:37.387048653Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/50xxx/CVE-2026-50128.json",
        "https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-rwcw-vq68-g34p",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50128",
        "https://github.com/gogs/gogs/security/advisories/GHSA-pwx3-qcgw-vh7h"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 504782,
  "published_at": "2026-06-24T19:48:52.942+00:00"
}