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Mongoose <= 6.16 DoS Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Web Servers

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

None Solution Available

Created

Created

4 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

Mongoose is prone to a denial of service vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

An integer overflow in parse_mqtt in mongoose.c in Cesanta Mongoose allows an attacker to achieve remote DoS (infinite loop), or possibly cause an out-of-bounds write, by sending a crafted MQTT protocol packet.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Mongoose version 6.16 and probably prior.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

No known solution is available as of 03rd December, 2019. Information regarding this issue will be updated once solution details are available.

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