SB2023112176 - Denial of service in Eclipse Mosquitto
Published: November 21, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023112176
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5632)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion by establishing a connection to the mosquitto server without sending data, cause the EPOLLOUT event to be added, which results excessive CPU consumption.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.