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Debian: CVE-2017-9868: mosquitto -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-9868: mosquitto -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/25/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/19/2019
Modified
02/24/2020

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(s)

  • debian-upgrade-mosquitto

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