Improper Authentication Affecting mosquitto package, versions <1.4.10-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
9.17% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-MOSQUITTO-5689558
  • published11 Sept 2017
  • disclosed11 Sept 2017

Introduced: 11 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-7650  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 mosquitto to version 1.4.10-3 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 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.