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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-12546: Improper Access Control

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 27, 2019
Added
Nov 8, 2019
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto version 1.0 to 1.5.5 (inclusive) when a client publishes a retained message to a topic, then has its access to that topic revoked, the retained message will still be published to clients that subscribe to that topic in the future. In some applications this may result in clients being able cause effects that would otherwise not be allowed.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-mosquitto
Title
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