CVE-2023-28366

Summary

CVECVE-2023-28366
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-09-01 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2024-01-07 10:15:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-401

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Eclipse Mosquitto All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.compass-security.com/fileadmin/Research/Advisories/2023_02_CSNC-2023-001_Eclipse_M... MISC www.compass-security.com
GLSA-202401-09 security.gentoo.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5511-1 mosquitto DEBIAN www.debian.org
Comparing v2.0.15...v2.0.16 · eclipse/mosquitto · GitHub MISC github.com
Version 2.0.16 released. | Eclipse Mosquitto CONFIRM mosquitto.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: mosquitto-2.0.17-1.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Fix for CVE-2023-28366 · eclipse/mosquitto@6113eac · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: mosquitto-2.0.17-1.fc39 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199931 Ubuntu Security Notification for Mosquitto Vulnerabilities (USN-6492-1)
  • 242923 Red Hat Update for Satellite 6.14.2 (RHSA-2024:0797)
  • 242993 Red Hat Update for Satellite 6 (RHSA-2024:1061)
  • 285295 Fedora Security Update for mosquitto (FEDORA-2023-9adc4be8b0)
  • 378973 IBM Integration Bus Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability (7056456)
  • 505895 Alpine Linux Security Update for mosquitto
  • 6000171 Debian Security Update for mosquitto (DSA 5511-1)
  • 710827 Gentoo Linux Eclipse Mosquitto Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202401-09)
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