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CVE-2017-2922

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
0.02625
Risk score
40.12
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2017-11-07
Modified
2024-09-16
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2017-12063, GHSA-G5QG-R8Q8-9M72
Products
Automattic:Mongoose 6.8
Sources
euvd EUVD-2017-12063

Description

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Websocket protocol implementation of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8. A specially crafted websocket packet can cause a buffer to be allocated while leaving stale pointers which leads to a use-after-free vulnerability which can be exploited to achieve remote code execution. An attacker needs to send a specially crafted websocket packet over the network to trigger this vulnerability.

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