Bug 1696314 (CVE-2018-12550) - CVE-2018-12550 mosquitto: improper access control in ACL file leads to use default allow policy
Summary: CVE-2018-12550 mosquitto: improper access control in ACL file leads to use de...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-12550
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1696315 1696317
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-04-04 14:17 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2019-09-29 15:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-05-09 16:07:51 UTC
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-04-04 14:17:51 UTC 
When Eclipse Mosquitto version 1.0 to 1.5.5 (inclusive) is configured to use an ACL file, and that ACL file is empty, or contains only comments or blank lines, then Mosquitto will treat this as though no ACL file has been defined and use a default allow policy. The new behaviour is to have an empty ACL file mean that all access is denied, which is not a useful configuration but is not unexpected.

Reference:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=541870
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-04-04 14:19:06 UTC 
Created mosquitto tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-29 [bug 1696315]
Comment 2 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-04-04 14:19:34 UTC 
Created mosquitto tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1696317]
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