CVE-2017-7651
In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur
02 Description
In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.11% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 92.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-04-24 14:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 16:12Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-04-11
- Assigning CNA
- eclipse
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- f880788320e1cef0ffcf17bdd2db68354cd57fa97dd16bd70a6ae11548d67b70
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20180331 [SECURITY] [DLA 1334-1] mosquitto security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.html
- mosquitto.orghttps://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20180629 [SECURITY] [DLA 1409-1] mosquitto security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00016.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-4325https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325
- bugs.eclipse.orghttps://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=529754
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- mosquitto Fixed in 1.4.15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- mosquitto Fixed in 1.4.15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- mosquitto Fixed in 1.4.15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- mosquitto Fixed in 0.15-2+deb7u3ubuntu0.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- mosquitto Fixed in 1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.3
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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