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veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:5878
HistoryMar 05, 2018 - 3:20 a.m.

Denial Of Service (DoS) Through Memory Exhaustion

2018-03-0503:20:10
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
9

EPSS

0.003

Percentile

68.9%

Mosquitto is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. The vulnerability can be performed by unauthenticated clients and is caused when the brokers are unable to control limit memory usage when handling CONNECT packets. This allows multiple clients to cause a DoS through Memory Exhaustion.