Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-2921
An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Websocket protocol implementation of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8. A specially crafted websocket packet can cause an integer overflow, leading to a heap buffer overflow and resulting in denial of service and potential remote code execution. An attacker needs to send a specially crafted websocket packet over network to trigger this vulnerability.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.021
EPSS Ranking 83.6%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 8.1
CVSS v2 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2017-2921
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cpe:2.3:a:cesanta:mongoose:6.8