CVE-2021-41039 — Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop in Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Mosquitto

CWE-1050 — Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop7 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV6.5
EPSS
0.3%
top 51.70%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
THE Eclipse Foundation Eclipse MosquittoEclipse Mosquitto
Timeline
PublishedDec 1
Latest updateNov 21

Description

In versions 1.6 to 2.0.11 of Eclipse Mosquitto, an MQTT v5 client connecting with a large number of user-property properties could cause excessive CPU usage, leading to a loss of performance and possible denial of service.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶CVEListV5the_eclipse_foundation/eclipse_mosquitto1.6 — unspecified+1
▶Debianeclipse/mosquitto< 2.0.11-1+deb11u1+3
▶Ubuntueclipse/mosquitto< 2.0.11-1ubuntu1.1+1
▶NVDeclipse/mosquitto1.6 — 2.0.11

Patches

Patch: bugs.eclipse.org ↗Patch: bugs.eclipse.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
mosquitto vulnerabilities↗2023-11-21
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GHSA
GHSA-5xp2-36v8-r67m: In versions 1↗2021-12-02
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OSV
CVE-2021-41039: In versions 1↗2021-12-01
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CVEList
CVE-2021-41039: In versions 1↗2021-12-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Mosquitto vulnerabilities↗2023-11-21
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Debian
CVE-2021-41039: mosquitto - In versions 1.6 to 2.0.11 of Eclipse Mosquitto, an MQTT v5 client connecting wit...↗2021
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CVE-2021-41039 — HIGH severity | cvebase