Bug 1464946 (CVE-2017-9868)

Summary:	CVE-2017-9868 mosquitto: World-readable persistence file possibly leaking sensitive information
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-06-26 09:39:14 UTC

In Mosquitto through 1.4.12, mosquitto.db (aka the persistence file) is world readable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive MQTT topic information.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/issues/468

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-06-26 09:40:25 UTC

Created mosquitto tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1464947]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1464948]