vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6492-1 (CVE-2021-34431): Mosquitto vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 22, 2021
Added
Nov 22, 2023
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto version 1.6 to 2.0.10, if an authenticated client that had connected with MQTT v5 sent a crafted CONNECT message to the broker a memory leak would occur, which could be used to provide a DoS attack against the broker.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-mosquitto
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