VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2017-7651
CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability5.12%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-04-24
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur in connection phase of MQTT protocol.
Weakness classification
- CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- CWE-789: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Primary references
- emo@eclipse.org — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- emo@eclipse.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- emo@eclipse.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- emo@eclipse.org — Patch, Vendor Advisory
- emo@eclipse.org — Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch, Vendor Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory