Excessive Iteration Affecting mosquitto package, versions <2.0.6
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (13th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-COCOAPODS-MOSQUITTO-6004143
- published 22 Oct 2023
- disclosed 18 Oct 2023
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 18 Oct 2023
CVE-2023-5632 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Mosquitto
to version 2.0.6 or higher.
Overview
Mosquitto is an open source implementation of a server for version 3.1 and 3.1.1 of the MQTT protocol.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Excessive Iteration when establishing a connection to the server without sending data. This causes an EPOLLOUT
event to be added, leading to excessive CPU consumption. An attacker can cause a denial of service by exploiting this vulnerability.