Bug 1660413 (CVE-2018-20145)

Summary:	CVE-2018-20145 mosquitto: Possible ACL bypass
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	mosquitto 1.5.5	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	1660414, 1660415
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-12-18 09:57:54 UTC

Eclipse Mosquitto 1.5.x before 1.5.5 allows ACL bypass: if the option per_listener_settings was set to true, and the default listener was in use, and the default listener specified an acl_file, then the acl file was being ignored.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/issues/1073

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/commit/9097577b49b7fdcf45d30975976dd93808ccc0c4

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-12-18 09:58:10 UTC

Created mosquitto tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1660415]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1660414]