### Summary
Due to insufficient origin validation in all Mastodon, attackers can impersonate and take over any remote account.
Every Mastodon version prior to 3.5.17 is vulnerable, as well as...
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I wonder if the companies that forked mastodon (like truth social) will bother to update. I can see someone posting stuff as a former president with this flaw.
I wonder if the companies that forked mastodon (like truth social) will bother to update. I can see someone posting stuff as a former president with this flaw.
Eh, stuff like truth social doesn’t federate with anything anyway, so unfortunately this isn’t a vulnerability for them.
Has it been confirmed this is a federation bug?
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Oh great, thanks.