CVE-2023-2905 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2023-2905

Cesanta Mongoose MQTT Message Parsing Heap Overflow

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • zenofex
  • WanderingGlitch

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Mongoose
Vulnerable Versions:
7.10, 7.11

Timeline

Official Publish: August 9th, 2023
Last Modified: October 10th, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-122

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
Execution
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1055 Process Injection
Defense Evasion