What is CVE-2017-9868?

CVE-2017-9868 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Eclipse Mosquitto, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-06-25.

How severe is CVE-2017-9868?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Eclipse Mosquitto

CVE-2017-9868

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.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.000 (7.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Eclipse Mosquitto
Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9868?: CVE-2017-9868 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Eclipse Mosquitto, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-06-25.
How severe is CVE-2017-9868?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.