Unconditionally adding an event to the epoll causes excessive CPU consumption (Eclipse Mosquitto)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.80 % · percentile 57 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- eclipse
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Description
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
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-834 — Excessive Iteration
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | eclipse |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | NVD · emo@eclipse.org (Secondary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-57925
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-5632
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:mosquitto:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Eclipse · Mosquitto | affected 0 ≤ 2.0.5 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |