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Sead Fadilpašić

Mastodon hit by security flaw — top Twitter alternative acts fast to patch critical security issue that could have let hackers hijack user accounts

Mastodon.

Top Twitter alternative Mastodon was found to be carrying a high-severity vulnerability which could have been used by hackers to impersonate people and take over their accounts. 

The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-23832, and has a severity rating of 9.4. It affects all Mastodon versions before 3.5.17, 4.0.13, and 4.2.5. 

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