Vigil@nce - Mosquitto: privilege escalation via ACL Bypass
February 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
– Impacted products: Fedora.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Consequences: privileged access/rights, data reading, data
creation/edition.
– Provenance: user shell.
– Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
– Creation date: 27/12/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass restrictions via ACL Bypass of Mosquitto,
in order to escalate his privileges.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Mosquitto-privilege-escalation-via-ACL-Bypass-28090