🛡️ CVE-2023-5632
🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-834 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-834
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-10-18
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-06-25

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
mosquitto

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