CVE-2023-2905

high

Description

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.

References

https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-2905.html

https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/releases/tag/7.11

https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/pull/2274

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-08-09

Updated: 2023-08-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00409