CVE-2023-5632

High

Description

In Eclipse Mosquito before and including 2.0.5, establishing a connection to the mosquitto server without sending data causes the EPOLLOUT event to be added, which results excessive CPU consumption. This could be used by a malicious actor to perform denial of service type attack. This issue is fixed in 2.0.6

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductEclipse Mosquitto
PublishedOct 18, 2023
First seenOct 18, 2023
Weakness typeCWE-834CWE-834

How to fix

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
eclipse mosquitto2.0.5—

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CVE-2023-5632 · Eclipse Mosquitto · Dark Radar