Bug 1464946 (CVE-2017-9868) - CVE-2017-9868 mosquitto: World-readable persistence file possibly leaking sensitive information
Summary: CVE-2017-9868 mosquitto: World-readable persistence file possibly leaking sen...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: CVE-2017-9868
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1464947 1464948
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-06-26 09:39 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-08-22 12:35:15 UTC

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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]
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