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Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201707-16
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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
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The package mosquitto before version 1.4.14-1 is vulnerable to
information disclosure.
Resolution
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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
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None.
Description
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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
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A local attacker could access sensitive information by reading the
mosquitto.db.
References
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https://mosquitto.org/2017/06/security-advisory-cve-2017-9868/
https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/issues/468
https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/commit/09cb1b61c8f48284d9c42bd911faa7525cc689c7
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-9868
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