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Status published
High
CVE-2024-8376
Memory leak
Vulnerability Description
In Eclipse Mosquitto up to version 2.0.18a, an attacker can achieve memory leaking, segmentation fault or heap-use-after-free by sending specific sequences of "CONNECT", "DISCONNECT", "SUBSCRIBE", "UNSUBSCRIBE" and "PUBLISH" packets.
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:
- Roman Kraus (Fraunhofer FOKUS)
- Steffen Lüdtke (Fraunhofer FOKUS)
- Martin Schneider (Fraunhofer FOKUS)
- Ramon Barakat (Fraunhofer FOKUS)
References
- https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/216
- https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/217
- https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/218
- https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/227
- https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignement/-/issues/26
- https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/releases/tag/v2.0.19
- https://mosquitto.org/
- https://github.com/eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto/commit/1914b3ee2a18102d0a94cbdbbfeae1afa03edd17
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Mosquitto
Vulnerable Versions:
2.0.18, 2.0.19
Timeline
Official Publish:
October 11th, 2024
Last Modified:
October 31st, 2024
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
T1499
Endpoint Denial of Service
Impact
T1190
Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1059
Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution
T1486
Data Encrypted for Impact
Impact
T1562
Impair Defenses
Defense Evasion
T1068
Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1055
Process Injection
Defense Evasion
T1105
Ingress Tool Transfer
Command and Control
T1485
Data Destruction
Impact
T1203
Exploitation for Client Execution
Execution
T1213
Data from Information Repositories
Collection