CVE-2017-7651

Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur in connection phase of MQTT protocol.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325

https://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00016.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.html

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=529754

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3