CVE-2023-28366
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
41.2%
The broker in Eclipse Mosquitto 1.3.2 through 2.x before 2.0.16 has a memory leak that can be abused remotely when a client sends many QoS 2 messages with duplicate message IDs, and fails to respond to PUBREC commands. This occurs because of mishandling of EAGAIN from the libc send function.
Affected configurations
References
github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/commit/6113eac95a9df634fbc858be542c4a0456bfe7b9
github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/compare/v2.0.15...v2.0.16
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KJ2FMBGVVQEQWTTQB7YLKTAHMX2UM66X/
mosquitto.org/blog/2023/08/version-2-0-16-released/
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-09
www.compass-security.com/fileadmin/Research/Advisories/2023_02_CSNC-2023-001_Eclipse_Mosquitto_Memory_Leak.txt
www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5511
Related
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
41.2%