Memory leak in Eclipse Mosquitto - CVE-2024-8376
Published: October 31, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU99568
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-8376
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Eclipse
Affected software:
Eclipse Mosquitto
Eclipse Mosquitto
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak. A remote attacker can send a specific sequences of "CONNECT", "DISCONNECT", "SUBSCRIBE", "UNSUBSCRIBE" and "PUBLISH" packets to force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2024-8376
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/216
- https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/217
- https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/218
- https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/227
- https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignement/-/issues/26
- https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/releases/tag/v2.0.19
- https://github.com/eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto/commit/1914b3ee2a18102d0a94cbdbbfeae1afa03edd17