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CVE-2017-2922
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-11-07T16:29:01.247 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:17:08.550

Summary

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.

Affected products

cesanta — mongoose

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References

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