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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-12550: mosquitto Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-12550: mosquitto Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/27/2019
Created
12/18/2019
Added
11/08/2019
Modified
06/17/2022

Description

When Eclipse Mosquitto version 1.0 to 1.5.5 (inclusive) is configured to use an ACL file, and that ACL file is empty, or contains only comments or blank lines, then Mosquitto will treat this as though no ACL file has been defined and use a default allow policy. The new behaviour is to have an empty ACL file mean that all access is denied, which is not a useful configuration but is not unexpected.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-mosquitto

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