7.5

CVE-2018-20145: eclipse mosquitto

CVSS: 7.5v3.0HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2018-20145
Published 13-12-2018Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-20145 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in eclipse mosquitto. EPSS estimates a 1.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.65%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 13-12-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.65%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

76%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.65% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.65%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • mosquitto< 1.5.5-1
Eclipse1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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