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CVE-2023-5632

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.69% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2023-10-18 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

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CVE
CVE-2023-5632
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.69%

Original NVD Description

In Eclipse Mosquito before and including 2.0.5, establishing a connection to the mosquitto server without sending data causes the EPOLLOUT event to be added, which results excessive CPU consumption. This could be used by a malicious actor to perform denial of service type attack. This issue is fixed in 2.0.6

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