Denial of Service Vulnerability in EMQ X Broker Versions Prior to 4.2.8

Denial of Service Vulnerability in EMQ X Broker Versions Prior to 4.2.8

CVE-2021-33175 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EMQ X Broker versions prior to 4.2.8 are vulnerable to a denial of service attack as a result of excessive memory consumption due to the handling of untrusted inputs. These inputs cause the message broker to consume large amounts of memory, resulting in the application being terminated by the operating system.

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