Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset Affecting cesanta/mongoose package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-CESANTAMONGOOSE-8383390
  • published 18 Nov 2024
  • disclosed 18 Nov 2024
  • credit Gabriele Quagliarella of Nozomi Networks

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for cesanta/mongoose.

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 Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset through the handling of unexpected TLS packets. An attacker can force the application to read unintended heap memory space by sending a specially crafted TLS packet.

References

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.1 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Active
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    Low
  • Integrity (VI)
    None
  • Availability (VA)
    None
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None