CVE-2017-2921

CRITICAL

Cesanta Mongoose 6.8 - Denial of Service and Potential Remote Code Execution via Websocket Packet Integer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Websocket protocol implementation of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8. A specially crafted websocket packet can cause an integer overflow, leading to a heap buffer overflow and resulting in denial of service and potential remote code execution. An attacker needs to send a specially crafted websocket packet over network to trigger this vulnerability.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0428

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0242
EPSS Percentile 82.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-190
Status published
Products (2)
cesanta/mongoose 6.8
Cesanta/Mongoose 6.8
Published Nov 07, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026