CVE-2017-7652
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.0%
Description
In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, if a Mosquitto instance is set running with a configuration file, then sending a HUP signal to server triggers the configuration to be reloaded from disk. If there are lots of clients connected so that there are no more file descriptors/sockets available (default limit typically 1024 file descriptors on Linux), then opening the configuration file will fail.
How to fix CVE-2017-7652
To remediate CVE-2017-7652, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.4.15-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 1.4.15-1 or later
Is CVE-2017-7652 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.4.15-r0
- from 0, < 1.4.15-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |