vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-9868: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jun 25, 2017
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-mosquitto
Title
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