CVE-2025-52136 (GCVE-0-2025-52136)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-10 00:00
Modified
2025-08-12 14:27
Severity ?
3.0 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-754 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Summary
In EMQX before 5.8.6, administrators can install arbitrary novel plugins via the Dashboard web interface. NOTE: the Supplier's position is that this is the intended behavior; however, 5.8.6 adds a defense-in-depth feature in which a plugin's acceptability (for later Dashboard installation) is set by the "emqx ctl plugins allow" CLI command.
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