What is CVE-2023-33656?

CVE-2023-33656 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Emqx Nanomq, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-05-30.

How severe is CVE-2023-33656?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Emqx Nanomq

CVE-2023-33656

A memory leak vulnerability exists in NanoMQ 0.17.2. The vulnerability is located in the file message.c. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service attack by causing the program to consume all available memory resources.

EPSS: 0.004 (31.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Emqx Nanomq — versions 0.17.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

cve@mitre.org (Product)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Mailing List)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-33656?: CVE-2023-33656 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Emqx Nanomq, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-05-30.
How severe is CVE-2023-33656?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.