CVE-2018-12551
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-03-27 17:26
Modified
2024-08-05 08:38
Severity ?
Summary
When Eclipse Mosquitto version 1.0 to 1.5.5 (inclusive) is configured to use a password file for authentication, any malformed data in the password file will be treated as valid. This typically means that the malformed data becomes a username and no password. If this occurs, clients can circumvent authentication and get access to the broker by using the malformed username. In particular, a blank line will be treated as a valid empty username. Other security measures are unaffected. Users who have only used the mosquitto_passwd utility to create and modify their password files are unaffected by this vulnerability.
References
emo@eclipse.orghttps://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=543401Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
emo@eclipse.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00035.html
Impacted products
The Eclipse FoundationEclipse Mosquitto
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