7.5
CVE-2023-5632
- EPSS 0.69%
- Veröffentlicht 18.10.2023 09:15:10
- Zuletzt bearbeitet 25.06.2025 20:53:55
- Quelle emo@eclipse.org
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Unconditionally adding an event to the epoll causes excessive CPU consumption
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
| Typ | Quelle | Score | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPSS | FIRST.org | 0.69% | 0.479 |
| Quelle | Base Score | Exploit Score | Impact Score | Vector String |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nvd@nist.gov | 7.5 | 3.9 | 3.6 |
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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| emo@eclipse.org | 7.5 | 3.9 | 3.6 |
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CWE-834 Excessive Iteration
The product performs an iteration or loop without sufficiently limiting the number of times that the loop is executed.
https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/commit/18bad1ff32435e523d7507e9b2ce0010124a8f2d
https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/pull/2053