cve/2023/CVE-2023-2905.md

### [CVE-2023-2905](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-2905)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Mongoose&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=n%2Fa&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-122%20Heap-based%20Buffer%20Overflow&color=brighgreen)

### Description

Due to a failure in validating the length of a provided MQTT_CMD_PUBLISH parsed message with a variable length header, Cesanta Mongoose, an embeddable web server, version 7.10 is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the default configuration. Version 7.9 and prior does not appear to be vulnerable. This issue is resolved in version 7.11.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-2905.html

#### Github
- https://github.com/DiRaltvein/memory-corruption-examples