Vulnerability CVE-2017-9868
Published: 2017-06-25

Description:
In Mosquitto through 1.4.12, mosquitto.db (aka the persistence file) is world readable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive MQTT topic information.

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Mosquitto project -> Mosquitto 
Eclipse -> Mosquitto 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/issues/468
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00036.html
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