CVE-2017-2922 (GCVE-0-2017-2922)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-11-07 16:00
Modified
2024-09-16 18:59
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • remote code execution
Summary
An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Websocket protocol implementation of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8. A specially crafted websocket packet can cause a buffer to be allocated while leaving stale pointers which leads to a use-after-free vulnerability which can be exploited to achieve remote code execution. An attacker needs to send a specially crafted websocket packet over the network to trigger this vulnerability.
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Cesanta Mongoose Version: 6.8
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