### [CVE-2017-7651](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7651)
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### Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur in connection phase of MQTT protocol.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=529754

#### Github
- https://github.com/Dmitriy-area51/Pentest-CheckList-MQTT
- https://github.com/St3v3nsS/CVE-2017-7651
- https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example
- https://github.com/mukkul007/MqttAttack
- https://github.com/souravbaghz/MQTTack