CVE-2018-12543 Information

Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto versions 1.5 to 1.5.2 inclusive if a message is published to Mosquitto that has a topic starting with $ but that is not $SYS e.g. $test/test then an assert is triggered that should otherwise not be reachable and Mosquitto will exit.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=539295

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5