CVE-2018-12543

Published: 15 November 2018

In Eclipse Mosquitto versions 1.5 to 1.5.2 inclusive, if a message is published to Mosquitto that has a topic starting with $, but that is not $SYS, e.g. $test/test, then an assert is triggered that should otherwise not be reachable and Mosquitto will exit.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
mosquitto Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	cosmic	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	trusty	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	upstream	Not vulnerable (debian: Vulnerable code introduced in 1.5)
	xenial	Not vulnerable (code not present)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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