CVE-2017-7653 (GCVE-0-2017-7653)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-05 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:12
VLAI
Summary
The Eclipse Mosquitto broker up to version 1.4.15 does not reject strings that are not valid UTF-8. A malicious client could cause other clients that do reject invalid UTF-8 strings to disconnect themselves from the broker by sending a topic string which is not valid UTF-8, and so cause a denial of service for the clients.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Mosquitto Affected: unspecified , ≤ 1.4.15 (custom)
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Date Public
2018-06-05 00:00
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