CVE-2018-20145

HIGH

Eclipse Mosquitto <1.5.5 - Auth Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Eclipse Mosquitto 1.5.x before 1.5.5 allows ACL bypass: if the option per_listener_settings was set to true, and the default listener was in use, and the default listener specified an acl_file, then the acl file was being ignored.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/issues/1073

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 43.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-732
Status published
Products (1)
eclipse/mosquitto 1.5 - 1.5.5
Published Dec 13, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026