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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2025-30741

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.

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CVE-2025-30741
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Updated in this feed
6 Nov 2026, 01:01 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2025-30741

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Mar 2025, 00:00 UTC

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
{
  "id": "9800b1675d81d1ef41f976ea69cba34a45fbed405076aaa4d98ab89549a31905",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-30741",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2025-30741",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-30741",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2025-30741",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2025-30741",
        "GHSA-7287-grhx-542x"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "9e34cfe9df56b24c64925de90a208ceacfc07ce0"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.12.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                    "strategy": "StandardRange"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "9e34cfe9df56b24c64925de90a208ceacfc07ce0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_TAG",
                    "original_tag": "v0.12.5"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.12.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "DESCRIPTION"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v0.12.4",
            "v0.12.3",
            "v0.12.2",
            "v0.12.1",
            "v0.12.0",
            "v0.11.13",
            "v0.11.12",
            "v0.11.11",
            "v0.11.9",
            "v0.11.8",
            "v0.11.7",
            "v0.11.6",
            "v0.11.5",
            "v0.11.4",
            "v0.11.3",
            "v0.11.2",
            "v0.11.1",
            "v0.11.0",
            "v0.10.10",
            "v0.10.9",
            "v0.10.8",
            "v0.10.7",
            "v0.10.6",
            "v0.10.5",
            "v0.10.4",
            "v0.10.3",
            "v0.10.2",
            "v0.10.1",
            "v0.9.6",
            "v0.9.5",
            "v0.9.4",
            "v0.9.0",
            "v0.8.6",
            "v0.8.5",
            "v0.8.0",
            "v0.7.6",
            "v0.6.1",
            "v0.6.0",
            "v0.5.9",
            "v0.1.9"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-30741.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "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"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-863"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/30xxx/CVE-2025-30741.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2025-30741",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 513686,
  "published_at": "2025-03-25T00:00:00+00:00"
}