CVE-2018-12546
MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: March 27, 2019 at 05:26 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:37 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorMosquitto
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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%
Description
In Eclipse Mosquitto version 1.0 to 1.5.5 (inclusive) when a client publishes a retained message to a topic, then has its access to that topic revoked, the retained message will still be published to clients that subscribe to that topic in the future. In some applications this may result in clients being able cause effects that would otherwise not be allowed.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (1)
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=543127CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- NONE
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-284CWE-732
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