CVE-2023-2905 (GCVE-0-2023-2905)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-09 04:46 – Updated: 2024-10-10 14:56
VLAI
Title
Cesanta Mongoose MQTT Message Parsing Heap Overflow
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
AHA
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Cesanta Mongoose Affected: 7.10
Unaffected: 7.11
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Credits
zenofex WanderingGlitch
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