Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-2905 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Cesanta Mongoose 7.10

047910
CVSS 8.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
low complexity
cesanta
CWE-787

Summary

Due to a failure in validating the length of a provided MQTT_CMD_PUBLISH parsed message with a variable length header, Cesanta Mongoose, an embeddable 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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Cesanta
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)