Upstream information

CVE-2017-7651 at MITRE

Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur in connection phase of MQTT protocol.

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 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1083911 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

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: Fri Mar 2 21:24:13 2018
CVE page last modified: Sat Nov 1 20:34:45 2025