CVE-2023-5632 Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2023-5632 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 18/10/2023 | CVE Updated: 13/09/2024 | CVE Year: 2023
Source: eclipse | Vendor: Eclipse | Product: Mosquitto
Status : PUBLISHED

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CVE-2023-5632 Description

In Eclipse Mosquito before and including 2.0.5, establishing a connection to the mosquitto server without sending data causes the EPOLLOUT event to be added, which results excessive CPU consumption. This could be used by a malicious actor to perform denial of service type attack. This issue is fixed in 2.0.6

Metrics

CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: 7.5 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

l➤ Exploitability Metrics:
    Attack Vector (AV)* NETWORK
    Attack Complexity (AC)* LOW
    Privileges Required (PR)* NONE
    User Interaction (UI)* NONE
    Scope (S)* UNCHANGED

l➤ Impact Metrics:
    Confidentiality Impact (C)* NONE
    Integrity Impact (I)* NONE
    Availability Impact (A)* HIGH

Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-ID: CWE-834
CWE Name: CWE-834 Excessive Iteration
Source: Eclipse

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

CAPEC-ID: CAPEC-130
CAPEC Description: CAPEC-130 Excessive Allocation


Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).