PT-2017-19232 · Eclipse+1 · Mosquitto+1

Dalmoz · Published 2017-06-25 · Updated 2019-03-12 · CVE-2017-9868

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mosquitto versions prior to 1.4.13

Description The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive MQTT topic information due to the world-readable mosquitto.db file, also known as the persistence file.

Recommendations For Mosquitto versions prior to 1.4.13, update to version 1.4.13 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider changing the permissions of the mosquitto.db file to restrict access until a patch is applied.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1080

CVE-2017-9868

DLA-1146-1

DLA-1525-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11057-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mosquitto

References · 20

• https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/issues/468 · Patch
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9868 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9868 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-9868 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1525-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mosquitto · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2018-1080 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7653 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-9868 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9868 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7654 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9868 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9868 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9868 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9868 · Vendor Advisory