CVE-2023-3592

En Mosquitto anterior a 2.0.16, se produce una pérdida de memoria cuando los clientes envían paquetes CONNECT v5 con un mensaje de voluntad que contiene tipos de propiedades no válidos.

A memory leak vulnerability was found in Eclipse Mosquitto. This issue is triggered by malicious initial packets or certain client actions and may allow a remote attacker to the deplete system resources causing memory exhaustion, leading to a disruption in services and a denial of service condition.

Kathrin Kleinhammer discovered that Mosquitto incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were provided with a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Zhanxiang Song discovered that Mosquitto incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were provided with a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause an authorisation bypass. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04.