7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-7652

Published: 25/04/2018 Updated: 09/10/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 6.8
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.6
VMScore: 534
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, if a Mosquitto instance is set running with a configuration file, then sending a HUP signal to server triggers the configuration to be reloaded from disk. If there are lots of clients connected so that there are no more file descriptors/sockets available (default limit typically 1024 file descriptors on Linux), then opening the configuration file will fail.

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Vendor Advisories

It was discovered that mosquitto, an MQTT broker, was vulnerable to remote denial-of-service attacks that could be mounted using various vectors For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1410-3+deb9u2 We recommend that you upgrade your mosquitto packages For the detailed security status of mosquitto pleas ...