CVE-2023-5632

mosquitto: In Eclipse Mosquito before and including 2.0.5, establishing a connection to the mosquitto server without sending dat...

CVE-2023-5632 is fixed in mosquitto on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5632, released October 18, 2023. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.5
high
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0080
56th percentile

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

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
mosquitto · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 2.0.7-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5632 Oct 18, 2023
mosquitto · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 2.0.7-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5632 Oct 18, 2023
mosquitto · Debian 14 2.0.7-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5632 Oct 18, 2023

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