CVE-2018-12543
HIGHEclipse Mosquitto 1.5.0-1.5.2 - Denial of Service via Invalid Topic String
Title source: llmDescription
In Eclipse Mosquitto versions 1.5 to 1.5.2 inclusive, if a message is published to Mosquitto that has a topic starting with $, but that is not $SYS, e.g. $test/test, then an assert is triggered that should otherwise not be reachable and Mosquitto will exit.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=539295
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0282
EPSS Percentile
86.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-20
CWE-617
Status
published
Products (1)
eclipse/mosquitto
1.5.0 - 1.5.2
Published
Nov 15, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026