Upstream information

CVE-2017-7650 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.5
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • libmosquitto1 >= 2.0.11-1.2
  • libmosquittopp1 >= 2.0.11-1.2
  • mosquitto >= 2.0.11-1.2
  • mosquitto-clients >= 2.0.11-1.2
  • mosquitto-devel >= 2.0.11-1.2
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11057

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon May 29 16:30:10 2017
CVE page last modified: Sat Nov 1 20:34:44 2025