CVE-2017-2922

Summary

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Websocket protocol implementation of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8. A specially crafted websocket packet can cause a buffer to be allocated while leaving stale pointers which leads to a use-after-free vulnerability which can be exploited to achieve remote code execution. An attacker needs to send a specially crafted websocket packet over the network to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
CesantaMongoose6.8affected

Weaknesses

  • remote code execution

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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