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Alpine: multiple mosquitto packages: security update to 1.4.12-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424158

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2017-7650)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-7650

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 424158

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 5/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7650

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7650

BID: 98741