Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-2922
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.027
EPSS Ranking 85.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.5
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