Denial of Service in mqtt-packet

Also known as GHSA-g3r2-65gc-qpqc

Published 8 y ago 2018-05-31 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.5

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

2.4%

percentile 84%

Public exploits

none known

MQTT before 3.4.6 and 4.0.x before 4.0.5 allows specifically crafted MQTT packets to crash the application, making a DoS attack feasible with very little bandwidth.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

2.42% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	7.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`
NVD	2.0	5.0	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	`mqtt-packet`	<3.4.6 >=4.0.0, <4.0.5	3.4.6 4.0.5

Affected products

HackerOne mqtt-packet node module

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

github.com /mcollina/mosca/issues/393 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
nodesecurity.io /advisories/75 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
github.com /mqttjs/mqtt-packet/pull/8 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10523 · advisory
github.com /advisories/GHSA-g3r2-65gc-qpqc · advisory
npmjs.com /advisories/75 · web

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-10523
GitHub Advisory: GHSA-g3r2-65gc-qpqc
NVD: CVE-2016-10523

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Summary