CVE catalog
CVE-2023-2905
swupdate: CVE-2023-2905
- Severity
- Medium
- Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 1.01% · Oct 25, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | swupdate | sid | 2026.05.1+git20261001+dfsg-2 | fixed |
| Debian | swupdate | forky | 2026.05.1+git20261001+dfsg-2 | fixed |
| Debian | swupdate | trixie | 2024.12.1+dfsg-3+deb13u2 | fixed |
| Debian | swupdate | bookworm | 2022.12+dfsg-4+deb12u2 | vulnerable |
| Debian | swupdate | bookworm-security | 2022.12+dfsg-4+deb12u3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | swupdate | 22.04 | 2020.11-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | swupdate | 22.04 | 2021.04-1.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | swupdate | 22.04 | 2021.04-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | swupdate | 22.04 | 2021.04-2build1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | swupdate | 22.04 | 2021.11-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | swupdate | 24.04 | 2023.05+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | swupdate | 24.04 | 2023.05+dfsg-4 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | swupdate | 24.04 | 2023.05+dfsg-4build1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | swupdate | 24.04 | 2023.05+dfsg-5 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | swupdate | 24.04 | 2023.12+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | swupdate | 24.04 | 2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | swupdate | 24.04 | 2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu4 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | swupdate | 24.04 | 2023.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu5 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | swupdate | source | sid | 2024.12+dfsg-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | swupdate | source | forky | 2024.12+dfsg-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | swupdate | source | trixie | 2024.12+dfsg-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | swupdate | source | bookworm | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | Not reported |
Notes
[bookworm] swupdate: Minor issue
OpenFactory catalog packages
Matching against OpenFactory catalog package versions is in progress.