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Excessive Iteration

CVE-2023-5632

High
7.5/10

Summary

In Eclipse Mosquito prior to 2.0.6, establishing a connection to the mosquitto server without sending data causes the "EPOLLOUT" event to be added, which results in excessive CPU consumption. This could be used by a malicious actor to perform a Denial of Service (DOS) type attack.

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

CWE-834 - Excessive Iteration

The software performs an iteration or loop without sufficiently limiting the number of times that the loop is executed.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published