CVE-2024-8376
Memory leak
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: October 11, 2024 at 03:18 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 08:22 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorMosquitto
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
SSVC
No known exploit
Description
In Eclipse Mosquitto up to version 2.0.18a, an attacker can achieve memory leaking, segmentation fault or heap-use-after-free by sending specific sequences of "CONNECT", "DISCONNECT", "SUBSCRIBE", "UNSUBSCRIBE" and "PUBLISH" packets.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (8)
Vendor AdvisoryIssue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/cve-assignement/-/issues/26Issue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/216Issue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/217Issue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/218Issue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/227SSVC — Action Prioritization
SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact
SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.
CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-401CWE-416CWE-755
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