PT-2023-22112 · Cesanta · Mongoose

Wanderingglitch + 1 · Published 2023-08-08 · Updated 2023-08-16 · CVE-2023-2905

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cesanta Mongoose version 7.10

Description The issue arises from a failure to validate the length of a provided MQTT CMD PUBLISH parsed message with a variable length header, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the default configuration.

Recommendations For version 7.10, update to version 7.11 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the MQTT CMD PUBLISH message with a variable length header until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Heap Based Buffer Overflow

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-122

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-2905

Affected Products

Mongoose

References · 11

• 🔥 https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-2905.html · Exploit
• https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/pull/2274 · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-2905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2905 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-2905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-2905 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/releases/tag/7.11 · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/68075 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/TechFishNews/status/1689224177033879552 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/56675 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/56079 · Telegram Post