CVE-2023-2905

Summary

Due to a failure in validating the length of a provided MQTT_CMD_PUBLISH parsed message with a variable length header, Cesanta Mongoose, an embeddable web server, version 7.10 is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the default configuration. Version 7.9 and prior does not appear to be vulnerable. This issue is resolved in version 7.11.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
CesantaMongoose7.10affected
CesantaMongoose7.11unaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-122: CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References