CVE-2023-28366 (GCVE-0-2023-28366)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-01 00:00 – Updated: 2025-06-26 13:59
VLAI
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-26 13:57 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2157 records in the last 180 days details
References
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