Improper Authentication Affecting mosquitto package, versions <1.4.12-r0
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- published8 Dec 2023
- disclosed11 Sept 2017
Introduced: 11 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-7650 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.19 mosquitto to version 1.4.12-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mosquitto package and not the mosquitto package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.19 relevant fixed versions and status.
In Mosquitto before 1.4.12, pattern based ACLs can be bypassed by clients that set their username/client id to '#' or '+'. This allows locally or remotely connected clients to access MQTT topics that they do have the rights to. The same issue may be present in third party authentication/access control plugins for Mosquitto.
References
- http://mosquitto.org/2017/05/security-advisory-cve-2017-7650/
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=516765
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7650
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3865
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7650
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98741
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-7650