CVE-2021-33176 (GCVE-0-2021-33176)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-08 14:31 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:42
VLAI
Summary
VerneMQ MQTT Broker versions prior to 1.12.0 are vulnerable to a denial of service attack as a result of excessive memory consumption due to the handling of untrusted inputs. These inputs cause the message broker to consume large amounts of memory, resulting in the application being terminated by the operating system.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
SNPS CNA
CNA scorecard – unranked: 0 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
VerneMQ vernemq Affected: <1.12.0
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