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1 vulnerability by Nicholas J Humfrey

CVE-2025-12790 (GCVE-0-2025-12790)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-06 21:07 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:47
VLAI
Title
Rubygem-mqtt: rubygem-mqtt hostname validation
Summary
A flaw was found in Rubygem MQTT. By default, the package used to not have hostname validation, resulting in possible Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack.
Severity
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-29 - Path Traversal: '..filename'
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Nicholas J Humfrey ruby-mqtt Affected: 0 , < 0.7.0 (semver)
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Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6     cpe:/a:redhat:satellite:6
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Date Public
2025-11-06 00:00
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