Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-9868

Title: Eclipse Mosquitto Information Disclosure

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-9868.

CWE Category CWE-200

Published Date Jun 25, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.03%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-9868: 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.

Impacted Vendors

eclipse 1

Reference Links

https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/issues/468 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00036.html https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/issues/468 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00036.html

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns