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CVE-2017-7654
In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.15 and earlier, a Memory Leak vulnerability was found within the Mosquitto Broker. Unauthenticated clients can…
High7.5EPSS 2.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- eclipse
Description
In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.15 and earlier, a Memory Leak vulnerability was found within the Mosquitto Broker. Unauthenticated clients can send crafted CONNECT packets which could cause a denial of service in the Mosquitto Broker.
Timeline
ID reserved
By eclipse
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 18% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
The Eclipse Foundation · Eclipse Mosquitto
- affected unspecified – ≤ 1.4.15
References (4)
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=533493 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180928 [SECURITY] [DLA 1525-1] mosquitto security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-4325 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-4023-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
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- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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