CVE-2018-12550

Summary

CVECVE-2018-12550
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-03-27 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:34:00 UTC
DescriptionWhen Eclipse Mosquitto version 1.0 to 1.5.5 (inclusive) is configured to use an ACL file, and that ACL file is empty, or contains only comments or blank lines, then Mosquitto will treat this as though no ACL file has been defined and use a default allow policy. The new behaviour is to have an empty ACL file mean that all access is denied, which is not a useful configuration but is not unexpected.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Eclipse Mosquitto All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 1972-1] mosquitto security update MLIST lists.debian.org
541870 – (CVE-2018-12550) mosquitto: An empty ACL file grant all permissions to clients 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

  • 500409 Alpine Linux Security Update for mosquitto
  • 504167 Alpine Linux Security Update for mosquitto
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