CVE-2023-2905
Cesanta Mongoose MQTT Message Parsing Heap Overflow
Severity Score
8.8
*CVSS v3.1
Exploit Likelihood
*EPSS
Affected Versions
*CPE
Public Exploits
1
*Multiple Sources
Exploited in Wild
-
*KEV
Decision
Attend
*SSVC
Descriptions
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.
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.
*Credits:
zenofex, WanderingGlitch
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Privileges Required
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Authentication
Confidentiality
Integrity
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* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
- Decision:Attend
Exploitation
Automatable
Tech. Impact
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
- 2023-05-26 CVE Reserved
- 2023-08-09 CVE Published
- 2024-10-10 CVE Updated
- 2024-10-10 First Exploit
- 2025-04-15 EPSS Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
CWE
- CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
- CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
CAPEC
References (3)
| URL | Tag | Source |
|---|---|---|
| https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/releases/tag/7.11 | Release Notes |
| URL | Date | SRC |
|---|---|---|
| https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-2905.html | 2024-10-10 |
| URL | Date | SRC |
|---|---|---|
| https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/pull/2274 | 2023-08-16 |
| URL | Date | SRC |
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