CVE-2024-8376

Memory leak

State: Published
Severity: 7.2 High
Published: Oct 11, 2024
Updated: Oct 31, 2024
Reserved: Sep 2, 2024

Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto up to version 2.0.18a, an attacker can achieve memory leaking, segmentation fault or heap-use-after-free by sending specific sequences of "CONNECT", "DISCONNECT", "SUBSCRIBE", "UNSUBSCRIBE" and "PUBLISH" packets.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.2 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	eclipse

Weaknesses

CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
CWE-416 Use After Free
CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
MosquittoEclipse Foundation	2.0.18Affected 2.0.19Not affected

References

https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/216issue-tracking
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/217issue-tracking
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/218issue-tracking
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/227issue-tracking
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignement/-/issues/26vendor-advisory
https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/releases/tag/v2.0.19patch
https://mosquitto.org/product
https://github.com/eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto/commit/1914b3ee2a18102d0a94cbdbbfeae1afa03edd17patch

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