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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-09 04:46 – Updated: 2024-10-10 14:56
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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.
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CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
AHA
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Cesanta Mongoose Affected: 7.10
Unaffected: 7.11
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