CVE-2017-7651

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
Description
In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur in connection phase of MQTT protocol.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-7651
  • Assigner
  • emo@eclipse.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-04-24T14:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-09T23:29:48
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-400 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:mosquitto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.4.14
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=529754 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/ Patch Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00016.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325 Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7651
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7651
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:08:32 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 05:33:48 security@eclipse.org emo@eclipse.org CVE Assigner updated
2022-12-03 05:33:49 2018-04-24T14:29Z 2018-04-24T14:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 05:33:49 2019-10-09T23:29:48 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 05:33:49 Modified Vulnerability Status updated