Information Exposure Affecting mosquitto package, versions [,1.4.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOSQUITTO-2368771
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Jun 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9868  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mosquitto to version 1.4.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. In Mosquitto through 1.4.12, mosquitto.db (aka the persistence file) is world readable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive MQTT topic information.

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