CVE-2017-7650

medium
Published 2017-09-11 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
4.0
VIR risk
6.5

Description

In Mosquitto before 1.4.12, pattern based ACLs can be bypassed by clients that set their username/client id to '#' or '+'. This allows locally or remotely connected clients to access MQTT topics that they do have the rights to. The same issue may be present in third party authentication/access control plugins for Mosquitto.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7650

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: emo@eclipse.org — http://mosquitto.org/2017/05/security-advisory-cve-2017-7650/

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.4.10-3
debian debianbullseyefixed1.4.10-3
debian debianforkyfixed1.4.10-3
debian debiansidfixed1.4.10-3
debian debiantrixiefixed1.4.10-3
debian debian8.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
eclipsemosquitto{"endExcluding":"1.4.12"}1.4.12

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.