ArchLinuxASA-201707-16[ASA-201707-16] mosquitto: information disclosure
5.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
2.1 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.2%
Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201707-16
Severity: Medium
Date : 2017-07-16
CVE-ID : CVE-2017-9868
Package : mosquitto
Type : information disclosure
Remote : No
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-353
Summary
The package mosquitto before version 1.4.14-1 is vulnerable to
information disclosure.
Resolution
Upgrade to 1.4.14-1.
pacman -Syu “mosquitto>=1.4.14-1”
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.4.14.
Workaround
None.
Description
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.
Impact
A local attacker could access sensitive information by reading the
mosquitto.db.
References
https://mosquitto.org/2017/06/security-advisory-cve-2017-9868/
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-9868
Related
5.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
2.1 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.2%