CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-2922.md

CVE-2017-2922

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0429
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0429

Github

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