CVE-2023-28366 (GCVE-0-2023-28366)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-01 00:00
Modified
2025-06-26 13:59
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/commit/6113eac95a9df634fbc858be542c4a0456bfe7b9 Patch
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/compare/v2.0.15...v2.0.16 Release Notes
cve@mitre.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KJ2FMBGVVQEQWTTQB7YLKTAHMX2UM66X/
cve@mitre.org https://mosquitto.org/blog/2023/08/version-2-0-16-released/ Release Notes
cve@mitre.org https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-09
cve@mitre.org https://www.compass-security.com/fileadmin/Research/Advisories/2023_02_CSNC-2023-001_Eclipse_Mosquitto_Memory_Leak.txt Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5511
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/commit/6113eac95a9df634fbc858be542c4a0456bfe7b9 Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/compare/v2.0.15...v2.0.16 Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KJ2FMBGVVQEQWTTQB7YLKTAHMX2UM66X/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://mosquitto.org/blog/2023/08/version-2-0-16-released/ Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-09
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.compass-security.com/fileadmin/Research/Advisories/2023_02_CSNC-2023-001_Eclipse_Mosquitto_Memory_Leak.txt Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5511
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