Improper Authorization Affecting aedes package, versions <0.35.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.13% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:aedes:20180807
  • published8 Aug 2018
  • disclosed7 Aug 2018
  • creditmhverbakel

Introduced: 7 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-3778  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-285  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade aedes to version 0.35.1 or higher.

Overview

aedes is a Barebone MQTT server that can run on any stream server.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authorization. A user can connect and subscribe to "will" from a client. From another client, a user may connect with a last will message with topic "will". Then by sending message to "test", the connection will break (because of authorization failure). Breaking the connection will trigger the LWT, and thus sends a message to will, which can be seen in the other client.

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