CVE-2023-28366
Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.5)—
The broker in Eclipse Mosquitto 1.3.2 through 2.x before 2.0.16 has a memory leak that can be abused remotely when a client sends many QoS 2 messages with duplicate message IDs, and fails to respond to PUBREC commands. This occurs because of mishandling of EAGAIN from the libc send function.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 7.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 1.32%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 70
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-401
- CWE-401
Referencias
- https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/commit/6113eac95a9df634fbc858be542c4a0456bfe7b9
- https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/compare/v2.0.15...v2.0.16
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KJ2FMBGVVQEQWTTQB7YLKTAHMX2UM66X/
- https://mosquitto.org/blog/2023/08/version-2-0-16-released/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-09
- https://www.compass-security.com/fileadmin/Research/Advisories/2023_02_CSNC-2023-001_Eclipse_Mosquitto_Memory_Leak.txt
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5511
- https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/commit/6113eac95a9df634fbc858be542c4a0456bfe7b9
- https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/compare/v2.0.15...v2.0.16
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KJ2FMBGVVQEQWTTQB7YLKTAHMX2UM66X/
- https://mosquitto.org/blog/2023/08/version-2-0-16-released/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-09
- https://www.compass-security.com/fileadmin/Research/Advisories/2023_02_CSNC-2023-001_Eclipse_Mosquitto_Memory_Leak.txt
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5511
JSON original (NVD)
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