CVE-2017-7651 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur in connection phase of MQTT protocol.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.23234.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

The Eclipse Foundation

Eclipse Mosquitto

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`1.4.14`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:mosquitto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Debian Subscribe	Debian Linux Subscribe
Eclipse Subscribe	Mosquitto Subscribe

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-1334-1	mosquitto security update
Debian DLA	DLA-1409-1	mosquitto security update
Debian DSA	DSA-4325-1	mosquitto security update

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=529754
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00016.html
https://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: eclipse

Published: 2018-04-24T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:12:27.908Z

Reserved: 2017-04-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-7651

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-04-24T14:29:00.437

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:32:22.763

Link: CVE-2017-7651

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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