Cesanta Mongoose 7.10 Default Configuration heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Cesanta Mongoose 7.10. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Default Configuration. The manipulation results in heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-2905. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cesanta Mongoose 7.10. Affected is an unknown part of the component Default Configuration. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Due to a failure in validating the length of a provided MQTT_CMD_PUBLISH parsed message with a variable length header, Cesanta Mongoose, an embeddable web server, version 7.10 is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the default configuration. Version 7.9 and prior does not appear to be vulnerable. This issue is resolved in version 7.11.

The weakness was published 08/09/2023. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-2905 since 05/26/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 7.11 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Mongoose 7.11
Patch: github.com

Timelineinfo

05/26/2023 🔍
08/09/2023 +75 days 🔍
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09/02/2023 +24 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Product: github.com

Advisory: github.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-2905 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-2905
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-236610

Entryinfo

Created: 08/09/2023 08:10
Updated: 09/02/2023 12:41
Changes: 08/09/2023 08:10 (42), 09/02/2023 12:41 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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