Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-33658

HighPublic PoC

Published: 08 June 2023

Published
08 June 2023
Modified
06 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0054 68.0th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-33658 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Emqx Nanomq. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 32.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in NanoMQ 0.17.2. The vulnerability can be triggered by calling the function nni_msg_get_pub_pid() in the file message.c. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service attack.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

emqx
nanomq
0.17.2

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References