CVE-2021-41039

Summary

CVECVE-2021-41039
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-01 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-02 12:15:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Eclipse Mosquitto All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5511-1 mosquitto DEBIAN www.debian.org
575314 – (CVE-2021-41039) Possible DoS Attack caused by unlimited number of "user properties" in Mosquitto Broker CONFIRM bugs.eclipse.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: This issue was discovered and reported by Zhanxiang Song, Bin Yuan, DeQing Zou, Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech.; Luyi Xing, IU; Yan Jia, Nankai University

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 184935 Debian Security Update for mosquitto (CVE-2021-41039)
  • 199931 Ubuntu Security Notification for Mosquitto Vulnerabilities (USN-6492-1)
  • 6000171 Debian Security Update for mosquitto (DSA 5511-1)
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