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CVE-2017-7651

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large…

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
5.1%
percentile 92%
Public exploits
0
none known

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur in connection phase of MQTT protocol.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

5.12% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.07.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD2.05.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Mosquitto

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

  • lists.debian.org /debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • mosquitto.org /blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/ · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • lists.debian.org /debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00016.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • debian.org /security/2018/dsa-4325 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN, x_transferred
  • bugs.eclipse.org /bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=529754 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

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