CVE-2023-2905

Published Aug 9, 2023

Last updated a year ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@takeonme.org
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 8.8
Impact score: 5.9
Exploitability score: 2.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: HIGH

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787
cve@takeonme.org: CWE-122

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:cesanta:mongoose:7.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "56CBAB29-FE86-4AD6-B410-BE5B5A4AEBF7"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References