Out-of-bounds read in Eclipse Mosquitto - CVE-2024-10525

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Out-of-bounds read in Eclipse Mosquitto - CVE-2024-10525

Published: October 31, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU99569
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10525
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when handling SUBACK packets with no reason codes. A remote attacker can send specially crafted SUBACK packets to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.


Affected software

Eclipse Mosquitto
Fedora
Ubuntu
openEuler
python-mosquitto (Ubuntu package)
libmosquittopp0 (Ubuntu package)
libmosquitto0 (Ubuntu package)
mosquitto-clients (Ubuntu package)
mosquitto (Ubuntu package)
libmosquittopp1 (Ubuntu package)
libmosquitto1 (Ubuntu package)
mosquitto
mosquitto-devel
mosquitto-debugsource
mosquitto-debuginfo

How to mitigate CVE-2024-10525

Install updates from vendor's website.

Eclipse Mosquitto - update to 2.0.19
python-mosquitto (Ubuntu package) - update to 0.15-2+deb7u3ubuntu0.1+esm1
libmosquittopp0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 0.15-2+deb7u3ubuntu0.1+esm1
libmosquitto0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 0.15-2+deb7u3ubuntu0.1+esm1
mosquitto-clients (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 0.15-2+deb7u3ubuntu0.1+esm1, 1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7+esm2, 1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm2, 1.6.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm2, 2.0.11-1ubuntu1.2, 2.0.18-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
mosquitto (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 0.15-2+deb7u3ubuntu0.1+esm1, 1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7+esm2, 1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm2, 1.6.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm2, 2.0.11-1ubuntu1.2, 2.0.18-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
libmosquittopp1 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7+esm2, 1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm2, 1.6.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm2, 2.0.11-1ubuntu1.2, 2.0.18-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
libmosquitto1 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7+esm2, 1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3+esm2, 1.6.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm2, 2.0.11-1ubuntu1.2, 2.0.18-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
mosquitto - update to 2.0.20-1
mosquitto-devel - update to 2.0.20-1
mosquitto-debugsource - update to 2.0.20-1
mosquitto-debuginfo - update to 2.0.20-1
mosquitto - addressed in versions 2.0.22-1.el9, 2.0.22-1.el10_1

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