CVE-2023-5632 — Unconditionally adding an event to the epoll causes excessive CPU consumption
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 exces…
Published: 2023-10-18 · CVSS: 7.5 · CVSS 3.1
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
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7