Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting cesanta/mongoose package, versions [,7.18)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CESANTAMONGOOSE-13147794
  • published30 Sept 2025
  • disclosed29 Sept 2025
  • creditcainiao159357

Introduced: 29 Sep 2025

NewCVE-2025-51495  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade cesanta/mongoose to version 7.18 or higher.

Overview

cesanta/mongoose is a networking library for C/C++. It implements event-driven non-blocking APIs for TCP, UDP, HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound in the mg_ws_cb function. An attacker can cause the application to crash by sending a specially crafted WebSocket request containing ofs=0.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1