Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Eclipse Mosquitto - CVE-2018-12546

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Eclipse Mosquitto - CVE-2018-12546

Published: February 11, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU17464
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12546
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when messages were still delivered to clients after their access to topic was revoked. A remote authenticated user was able to obtain potentially sensitive information.


Affected software

Eclipse Mosquitto
mosquitto (Debian package)
mosquitto (Alpine package)
mosquitto
Fedora
SUSE Linux
Opensuse

How to mitigate CVE-2018-12546

Install updates from vendor's website.

Eclipse Mosquitto - update to 1.5.6
mosquitto (Debian package) - update to 1.4.10-3+deb9u3
mosquitto (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 1.4.15-r1, 1.4.15-r5
mosquitto - addressed in versions 1.5.6-1.el7, 1.5.6-1.fc28, 1.5.6-1.fc29

External References

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