CVE-2017-2921
CRITICALCesanta Mongoose 6.8 - Denial of Service and Potential Remote Code Execution via Websocket Packet Integer Overflow
Title source: llmDescription
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