CVE-2018-12543

Summary

CVECVE-2018-12543
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-11-15 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:34:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Eclipse Mosquitto All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
539295 – (CVE-2018-12543) Remote crash in Mosquitto 1.5 to 1.5.2 CONFIRM bugs.eclipse.org Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500408 Alpine Linux Security Update for mosquitto
  • 504166 Alpine Linux Security Update for mosquitto
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