Information disclosure in Eclipse Mosquitto - CVE-2017-9868

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Information disclosure in Eclipse Mosquitto - CVE-2017-9868

Published: July 16, 2017 / Updated: August 24, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7545
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9868
CWE-ID: CWE-276
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to improper access permission setting for mosquitto.db. A local user can gain access to sensitive MQTT topic information.


Affected software

Eclipse Mosquitto
Arch Linux
Fedora
mosquitto (Alpine package)
mosquitto

How to mitigate CVE-2017-9868

Update to version 0.4.13.

mosquitto (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 1.4.13-r0, 1.4.15-r0
mosquitto - addressed in versions 1.4.13-1.el7, 1.4.13-1.fc24, 1.4.13-1.fc25, 1.4.13-1.fc26

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