CVE-2025-12790 (GCVE-0-2025-12790)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-06 21:07
Modified
2025-11-08 04:55
Severity ?
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-29 - Path Traversal: '..filename'
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6     cpe:/a:redhat:satellite:6
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