Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 9, 2023· Updated Oct 10, 2024
Cesanta Mongoose MQTT Message Parsing Heap Overflow
CVE-2023-2905
Description
Due to a failure in validating the length of a provided MQTT_CMD_PUBLISH parsed message with a variable length header, Cesanta Mongoose, an embeddable web server, version 7.10 is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the default configuration. Version 7.9 and prior does not appear to be vulnerable. This issue is resolved in version 7.11.
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References
3- github.com/cesanta/mongoose/pull/2274mitrepatch
- takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-2905.htmlmitrethird-party-advisorytechnical-descriptionexploit
- github.com/cesanta/mongoose/releases/tag/7.11mitrerelease-notes
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