Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Prior to v4.5.9, v4.4.16, and v4.3.22, Mastodon allows restricting new user sign-up based on e-mail domain names, and performs basic validation on e-mail addresses, but fails to restrict characters that are interpreted differently by some mailing servers. This vulnerability is fixed in v4.5.9, v4.4.16, and v4.3.22.
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"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/41xxx/CVE-2026-41259.json",
"cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-841"
]
}{
"source": "CPE_RANGE",
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:joinmastodon:mastodon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
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},
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},
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},
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]
}