CVE-2023-5632 (GCVE-0-2023-5632)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-18 08:34 – Updated: 2024-09-13 14:50
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Summary
In Eclipse Mosquito before and including 2.0.5, establishing a connection to the mosquitto server without sending data causes the EPOLLOUT event to be added, which results excessive CPU consumption. This could be used by a malicious actor to perform denial of service type attack. This issue is fixed in 2.0.6
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Eclipse Mosquitto Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.0.5 (custom)
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Przemysław Zygmunt (acsoftware.pl)
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