HighFix available
mosquitto — security advisory
The broker in Eclipse Mosquitto 1.3.2 through 2.x before 2.0.16 has a memory leak that can be abused remotely when a client sends many QoS 2 messages with duplicate message IDs, and fails to respond to PUBREC commands. This occurs because of mishandling of EAGAIN from the libc send function.
- Products
- mosquitto
- Affected versions
- 2.0.11-1.2
- Fixed versions
- 2.0.11-1.2+deb12u1, 2.0.17-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-28366
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The broker in Eclipse Mosquitto 1.3.2 through 2.x before 2.0.16 has a memory leak that can be abused remotely when a client sends many QoS 2 messages with duplicate message IDs, and fails to respond to PUBREC commands. This occurs because of mishandling of EAGAIN from the libc send function.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-28366
mosquitto
Fixed versions: 2.0.11-1.2+deb12u1
mosquitto
Fixed versions: 2.0.17-1
mosquitto
Fixed versions: 2.0.17-1
Complete source record
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