CVE-2024-10525 (GCVE-0-2024-10525)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-30 11:41 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:36
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Summary
In Eclipse Mosquitto, from version 1.3.2 through 2.0.18, if a malicious broker sends a crafted SUBACK packet with no reason codes, a client using libmosquitto may make out of bounds memory access when acting in its on_subscribe callback. This affects the mosquitto_sub and mosquitto_rr clients.
Severity ?
7.2 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Eclipse Foundation mosquitto Affected: 1.3.2 , ≤ 2.0.18 (semver)
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Qingpeng Du
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