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CVE-2026-54740— Lemmy: Lower-ranked federated moderator can remove higher-ranked moderators

CVSS 6.5 · Medium

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1AI

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Vulnerability Title
Lemmy: Lower-ranked federated moderator can remove higher-ranked moderators
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
Lemmy is a link aggregator and forum for the fediverse. Prior to 0.19.19 and 1.0.0-alpha.18, a lower-ranked remote moderator can remove a higher-ranked moderator by sending a signed ActivityPub Remove activity to the target instance. The local API uses LocalUser::is_higher_mod_or_admin_check to enforce moderator rank, but CollectionRemove::verify in crates/apub/activities/src/community/collection_remove.rs only calls verify_mod_action. CollectionRemove::receive dereferences self.object as an ApubPerson, creates a CommunityModeratorForm, and calls CommunityActions::leave without checking that the actor outranks the moderator identified by the object field. In communities with federated moderators, a junior moderator can therefore strip senior moderators from the community moderator list even though the local API rejects the same action. This issue is fixed in versions 0.19.19 and 1.0.0-alpha.18.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
授权机制缺失
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5

Affected Products

VendorProductAffected VersionsCPESubscribe
LemmyNetlemmy < 0.19.19 -

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Patches & Fixes for CVE-2026-54740 (4)

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Same Patch Batch · LemmyNet · 2026-08-19 · 6 CVEs total

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CVE-2026-547386.5 MEDIUMLemmy: Rate limit bypass via X-Forwarded-For header spoofing in actix-web ConnectionInfo
CVE-2026-547436.4 MEDIUMLemmy: Stored XSS via markdown image alt-text in lemmy-ui html5-embed
CVE-2026-547415.3 MEDIUMLemmy: Blocked users can edit private messages sent before the block
CVE-2026-547425.1 MEDIUMLemmy: `CollectionAdd::Featured` does not check the post is in the community

IV. Related Vulnerabilities

Same product: lemmy
Same vendor: LemmyNet
Same weakness: CWE-862

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