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CVE-2017-7652 json

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, if a Mosquitto instance is set running with a configuration file, then sending a HUP signal to server triggers…

published 2018-04-25 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-16657

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, if a Mosquitto instance is set running with a configuration file, then sending a HUP signal to server triggers the configuration to be reloaded from disk. If there are lots of clients connected so that there are no more file descriptors/sockets available (default limit typically 1024 file descriptors on Linux), then opening the configuration file will fail.

Patch / fix

  • mosquitto Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.4.15-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7652

  • mosquitto Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.15-2+deb7u3ubuntu0.1
  • mosquitto Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7652

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • mosquitto Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +17 more 1.4.15-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-7652

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-7652 updated cvss 5.3

mosquitto: configuration reload fails when no free sockets/file descriptors are available

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Mosquitto

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

References

Sources

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