CVE-2017-7650

Published Sep 11, 2017 CVSS 3.0 · 6.5 Medium EPSS 2.5% KEV · Not listed
Description
In Mosquitto before 1.4.12, pattern based ACLs can be bypassed by clients that set their username/client id to '#' or '+'. This allows locally or remotely connected clients to access MQTT topics that they do have the rights to. The same issue may be present in third party authentication/access control plugins for Mosquitto.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-961-1 mosquitto security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3865-1 mosquitto security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-16655 In Mosquitto before 1.4.12, pattern based ACLs can be bypassed by clients that set their username/client id to '#' or '+'. This allows locally or remotely connected clients to access MQTT topics that they do have the rights to. The same issue may be present in third party authentication/access control plugins for Mosquitto.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
eclipse
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 8:43 PM
Reserved
Apr 11, 2017, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 11, 2017, 4:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:24 AM