CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-5632

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-10-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2023-10-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-834

Description

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

Affected configurations

• eclipse mosquitto 2.0.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-834 Excessive Iteration weakness

References