OESA-2023-1774 (CVE-2023-3592)
Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2023-10-28 11:06 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:06 – Source websiteMosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or micro-controllers like the Arduino.
Security Fix(es):
In Mosquitto before 2.0.16, a memory leak occurs when clients send v5 CONNECT packets with a will message that contains invalid property types. (CVE-2023-3592)
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
(CVE-2023-5632)
| URL | Type | |
|---|---|---|
{
"affected": [
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"aarch64": [
"mosquitto-devel-2.0.16-1.oe2203sp2.aarch64.rpm",
"mosquitto-2.0.16-1.oe2203sp2.aarch64.rpm",
"mosquitto-debugsource-2.0.16-1.oe2203sp2.aarch64.rpm",
"mosquitto-debuginfo-2.0.16-1.oe2203sp2.aarch64.rpm"
],
"src": [
"mosquitto-2.0.16-1.oe2203sp2.src.rpm"
],
"x86_64": [
"mosquitto-debugsource-2.0.16-1.oe2203sp2.x86_64.rpm",
"mosquitto-devel-2.0.16-1.oe2203sp2.x86_64.rpm",
"mosquitto-2.0.16-1.oe2203sp2.x86_64.rpm",
"mosquitto-debuginfo-2.0.16-1.oe2203sp2.x86_64.rpm"
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "openEuler:22.03-LTS-SP2",
"name": "mosquitto",
"purl": "pkg:rpm/openEuler/mosquitto\u0026distro=openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP2"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "2.0.16-1.oe2203sp2"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"database_specific": {
"severity": "High"
},
"details": "Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for \u0026quot;machine to machine\u0026quot; messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or micro-controllers like the Arduino.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\r\n\r\nIn Mosquitto before 2.0.16, a memory leak occurs when clients send v5 CONNECT packets with a will message that contains invalid property types.\n(CVE-2023-3592)\r\n\r\nIn 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\r\n\r\n\n(CVE-2023-5632)",
"id": "OESA-2023-1774",
"modified": "2026-08-06T11:06:13Z",
"published": "2023-10-28T11:06:13Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2023-1774"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3592"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5632"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.7.2",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
],
"summary": "mosquitto security update",
"upstream": [
"CVE-2023-3592",
"CVE-2023-5632"
]
}
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