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CVE-2023-28366
published 2023-09-01

CVE-2023-28366: 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…

PriorityP336high7.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
1.11%
61.7th percentile
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

8 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianmosquitto< mosquitto 2.0.11-1.2+deb12u1 (bookworm)mosquitto 2.0.11-1.2+deb12u1 (bookworm)
eclipsemosquitto>= 0 < 2.0.11-1+deb11u12.0.11-1+deb11u1
eclipsemosquitto>= 0 < 2.0.11-1.2+deb12u12.0.11-1.2+deb12u1
eclipsemosquitto>= 0 < 2.0.17-12.0.17-1
eclipsemosquitto>= 0 < 2.0.17-12.0.17-1
eclipsemosquitto>= 0 < 2.0.11-1ubuntu1.12.0.11-1ubuntu1.1
eclipsemosquitto>= 0 < 1.6.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm11.6.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
eclipsemosquitto>= 1.3.2 < 2.0.162.0.16

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_debian7.5HIGH
vendor_redhat7.5HIGH
vendor_ubuntu6.5MEDIUM
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