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DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5632

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5632 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

In Eclipse Mosquito before and including 2.0.5, establishing a connection to the mosquitto server without sending data causes the EPOLLOUT event to be added, which results excessive CPU consumption. This could be used by a malicious actor to perform denial of service type attack. This issue is fixed in 2.0.6

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13mosquitto0, 0, 0
Debian:11mosquitto0, 0, 0
Debian:12mosquitto0, 0, 0
Debian:14mosquitto0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Oct 18, 2023 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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