CVE-2024-10525

In Eclipse Mosquitto, from version 1.3.2 through 2.0.18, if a malicious broker sends a crafted SUBACK packet with no reason codes, a client using libmosquitto may make out of bounds memory access when acting in its on_subscribe callback. This affects the mosquitto_sub and mosquitto_rr clients.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto/commit/8ab20b4ba4204fdcdec78cb4d9f03c944a6e0e1c	Patch
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/190	Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://mosquitto.org/blog/2024/10/version-2-0-19-released/	Release Notes
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00022.html

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:mosquitto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2024-10-30 12:15

Updated : 2025-11-03 21:16

NVD link : CVE-2024-10525

Mitre link : CVE-2024-10525

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-10525

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Products Affected

eclipse

mosquitto

CWE

CWE-122

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

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