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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2016-1000242

High
7.5/10

Summary

mqtt before 1.0.0 will cause the node process to crash when receiving specially crafted MQTT packets, making the application vulnerable to a denial of service condition.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published