Medium
Security advisory
Pixelfed before 0.12.5 allows anyone to follow private accounts and see private posts on other Fediverse servers. This affects users elsewhere in the Fediverse, if they otherwise have any followers from a Pixelfed instance.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-30741
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 6 Nov 2026, 01:01 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Pixelfed before 0.12.5 allows anyone to follow private accounts and see private posts on other Fediverse servers. This affects users elsewhere in the Fediverse, if they otherwise have any followers from a Pixelfed instance.
osv:CVE-2025-30741
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:45.806783984Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html",
"https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/releases/tag/v0.12.5",
"https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/114215925957179498",
"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43474425",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/30xxx/CVE-2025-30741.json",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-30741"
],
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 513686,
"published_at": "2025-03-25T00:00:00+00:00"
}