Resource Exhaustion Affecting mosquitto package, versions <1.4.15-r0
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- published31 May 2025
- disclosed24 Apr 2018
Introduced: 24 Apr 2018
CVE-2017-7651 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.22 mosquitto to version 1.4.15-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:3.22 relevant fixed versions and status.
In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur in connection phase of MQTT protocol.
References
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=529754
- https://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7651
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00016.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7651
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-7651