CVE-2017-9868
mosquitto - security update
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.03%
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-9868
To remediate CVE-2017-9868, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/mosquitto—upgrade to 1.4.13-r0 or later
- Debian/mosquitto—upgrade to 1.4.14-1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.15-2+deb7u2 or later
Is CVE-2017-9868 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 1.4.13-r0
- from 0, < 1.4.14-1
- from 0, < 0.15-2+deb7u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |