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CVE-2024-10525

Eclipse Mosquito: Heap Buffer Overflow in my_subscribe_callback

Published: Oct 30, 2024Updated: Nov 3, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-122
NVD MITRE
9.8CVSSCRITICAL
EPSS Score
57.9%
Top 1.0%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

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 Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-122CWE-787

Affected Products

mosquittoeclipseDevTools & CI
Debian GNU/LinuxСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
РЕД ОСООО «Ред Софт»
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat SatelliteRed Hat Inc.
On-prem
Operating Systems
Eclipse MosquittoEclipse FoundationOSS Libraries
eclipseoss-projectBEDevTools & CIaka eclipse-foundation
сообщество свободного программного обеспеченияoss-projectOperating Systemsaka сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, fsf
ооо «ред софт»commercialRUOperating Systemsaka red soft
red hat inc.commercialUSOperating Systemsaka red hat
eclipse foundationoss-projectDEOSS Libraries
and 2 more affected products View all →

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Initial Access
Privilege Escalation
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References

https://github.com/eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto/commit/8ab20b4ba4204fdcdec78cb4d9f03c944a6e0e1c
github.com
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/190
gitlab.eclipse.org
https://mosquitto.org/blog/2024/10/version-2-0-19-released/
mosquitto.org
and 6 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Oct 30, 2024
Last Updated
Nov 3, 2025

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