Denial of Service in mqtt

published 2020-09-01 6y ago modified 2023-11-08 3y ago also GHSA-hg78-c92r-hvwr

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: —; no EPSS score yet
public exploits: 0; none known

Affected versions of `mqtt` will cause the node process to crash when receiving specially crafted MQTT packets, making the application vulnerable to a denial of service condition.

## Recommendation

Update to v1.0.0 or later

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

npm mqtt 1.0.0

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CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
GitHub	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
npm	mqtt	<1.0.0	1.0.0

Classification

Weakness

CWE-248 Uncaught Exception

References

Sources

GitHub Advisory GHSA-hg78-c92r-hvwr

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