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TI-2025-00589 Aliases CVE-2025-0695GHSA-59j2-vr29-mmmc

Resource allocation without limits in Cesanta Frozen

Priority LOW 30CWE-770Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · Low
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-770.

Summary

An Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Cesanta Frozen versions less than 1.7 allows an attacker to induce a crash of the component embedding the library by supplying a maliciously crafted JSON as input.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00378 31st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Frozen (Cesanta): 1.7

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
CesantaFrozenbefore 1.71.7Patch availableCNA
  • Frozen VendorCesanta Affected before 1.7 Fixed in 1.7 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Frozen (Cesanta) Fixed in 1.7

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    Cesanta Frozen 1.7

    2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW

    Other records, highest priority first

    • TI-2025-00590 NULL pointer dereference in Cesanta FrozenPriority LOW 30
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Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-0695
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-59j2-vr29-mmmc

References

Other 1

  • TI-2023-23198 Cesanta mjs v2.20.0 was discovered to contain a function pointer hijacking vulnerability… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-51393 Mongoose: Content-Length + Transfer-Encoding coexistence enables request smuggling CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2018-15418 Mongoose Web Server 6.9 Denial of Service via Socket Connection CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-51389 Mongoose: TLS Hostname Verification Bypass via Overly Permissive Wildcard Matching CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2023-02723 Cesanta Mongoose MQTT Message Parsing Heap Overflow CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2020-15865 Buffer overflow in mg_resolve_from_hosts_file in Mongoose 6.18, when reading from a crafted hosts file. CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
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Sources

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