CVE-2023-5632

Unconditionally adding an event to the epoll causes excessive CPU consumption

Published Oct 18, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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


Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-57925 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
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:mosquitto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:mosquitto:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
eclipse
Published
Updated
Sep 13, 2024, 2:50 PM
Reserved
Oct 18, 2023, 8:17 AM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Oct 18, 2023, 9:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 6:48 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Oct 18, 2023, 12:00 AM