7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2017-2894

Published: 07/11/2017 Updated: 07/06/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

An exploitable stack buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the MQTT packet parsing functionality of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8. A specially crafted MQTT SUBSCRIBE packet can cause a stack buffer overflow resulting in remote code execution. An attacker needs to send a specially crafted MQTT packet over the network to trigger this vulnerability.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #898943 Multiple vulnerabiliities in Mongoose Package: src:smplayer; Maintainer for src:smplayer is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 16:51:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security Fixed in ...