RAM Exhaustion Vulnerability in Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14

CVE-2017-7651 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur in connection phase of MQTT protocol.

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