CVE-2023-2905
09.08.2023, 05:15
Due to a failure in validating the length of a provided MQTT_CMD_PUBLISHparsed message with a variable length header, Cesanta Mongoose, anembeddable web server, version 7.10 is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the default configuration. Version 7.9 and prior does not appear to be vulnerable. This issue is resolved in version 7.11.Enginsight
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| cesanta | mongoose | 7.10 |
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= Vulnerable software versions
Common Weakness Enumeration
- CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer OverflowA heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
- CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds WriteThe software writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.