Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-7654 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- HTTP DoS An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.
Nessus
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-4023-1.NASL description It was discovered that Mosquitto broker incorrectly handled certain specially crafted input and network packets. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 126096 published 2019-06-21 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2019-2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/126096 title Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 18.10 : mosquitto vulnerabilities (USN-4023-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4023-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered # trademark of Canonical, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(126096); script_version("1.3"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/10"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-7653", "CVE-2017-7654"); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4023-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 18.10 : mosquitto vulnerabilities (USN-4023-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "It was discovered that Mosquitto broker incorrectly handled certain specially crafted input and network packets. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4023-1/" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmosquitto1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmosquittopp1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mosquitto"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mosquitto-clients"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/06/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/06/20"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/06/21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2019-2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("ubuntu.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release"); if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu"); release = chomp(release); if (! preg(pattern:"^(16\.04|18\.04|18\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 16.04 / 18.04 / 18.10", "Ubuntu " + release); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu); flag = 0; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"16.04", pkgname:"libmosquitto1", pkgver:"1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"16.04", pkgname:"libmosquittopp1", pkgver:"1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"16.04", pkgname:"mosquitto", pkgver:"1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"16.04", pkgname:"mosquitto-clients", pkgver:"1.4.8-1ubuntu0.16.04.7")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"18.04", pkgname:"libmosquitto1", pkgver:"1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"18.04", pkgname:"libmosquittopp1", pkgver:"1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"18.04", pkgname:"mosquitto", pkgver:"1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"18.04", pkgname:"mosquitto-clients", pkgver:"1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.04.3")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"18.10", pkgname:"libmosquitto1", pkgver:"1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.10.3")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"18.10", pkgname:"libmosquittopp1", pkgver:"1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.10.3")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"18.10", pkgname:"mosquitto", pkgver:"1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.10.3")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"18.10", pkgname:"mosquitto-clients", pkgver:"1.4.15-2ubuntu0.18.10.3")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : ubuntu_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libmosquitto1 / libmosquittopp1 / mosquitto / mosquitto-clients"); }
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-4325.NASL description It was discovered that mosquitto, an MQTT broker, was vulnerable to remote denial-of-service attacks that could be mounted using various vectors. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118408 published 2018-10-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118408 title Debian DSA-4325-1 : mosquitto - security update code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4325. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(118408); script_version("1.3"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/13 12:30:47"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-7651", "CVE-2017-7652", "CVE-2017-7653", "CVE-2017-7654"); script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4325"); script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4325-1 : mosquitto - security update"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "It was discovered that mosquitto, an MQTT broker, was vulnerable to remote denial-of-service attacks that could be mounted using various vectors." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=911265" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=911266" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mosquitto" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/mosquitto" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade the mosquitto packages. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.10-3+deb9u2." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mosquitto"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/10/25"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/10/26"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libmosquitto-dev", reference:"1.4.10-3+deb9u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libmosquitto1", reference:"1.4.10-3+deb9u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libmosquitto1-dbg", reference:"1.4.10-3+deb9u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libmosquittopp-dev", reference:"1.4.10-3+deb9u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libmosquittopp1", reference:"1.4.10-3+deb9u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libmosquittopp1-dbg", reference:"1.4.10-3+deb9u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"mosquitto", reference:"1.4.10-3+deb9u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"mosquitto-clients", reference:"1.4.10-3+deb9u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"mosquitto-dbg", reference:"1.4.10-3+deb9u2")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"mosquitto-dev", reference:"1.4.10-3+deb9u2")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1525.NASL description CVE-2017-7653 As invalid UTF-8 strings are not correctly checked, an attacker could cause a denial of service to other clients by disconnecting them from the broker with special crafted topics. CVE-2017-7654 Due to a memory leak unauthenticated clients can send special crafted CONNECT packets which could cause a denial of service in the broker. CVE-2017-9868 Due to wrong file permissions local users could obtain topic information from the mosquitto database. For Debian 8 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 117835 published 2018-10-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/117835 title Debian DLA-1525-1 : mosquitto security update code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-1525-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(117835); script_version("1.1"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/10/01 10:24:11"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-7653", "CVE-2017-7654", "CVE-2017-9868"); script_name(english:"Debian DLA-1525-1 : mosquitto security update"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "CVE-2017-7653 As invalid UTF-8 strings are not correctly checked, an attacker could cause a denial of service to other clients by disconnecting them from the broker with special crafted topics. CVE-2017-7654 Due to a memory leak unauthenticated clients can send special crafted CONNECT packets which could cause a denial of service in the broker. CVE-2017-9868 Due to wrong file permissions local users could obtain topic information from the mosquitto database. For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.4-2+deb8u3. We recommend that you upgrade your mosquitto packages. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00036.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/mosquitto" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmosquitto-dev"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmosquitto1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmosquittopp-dev"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmosquittopp1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mosquitto"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mosquitto-clients"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mosquitto-dbg"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-mosquitto"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-mosquitto"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/09/28"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/10/01"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libmosquitto-dev", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u3")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libmosquitto1", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u3")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libmosquittopp-dev", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u3")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libmosquittopp1", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u3")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"mosquitto", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u3")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"mosquitto-clients", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u3")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"mosquitto-dbg", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u3")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"python-mosquitto", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u3")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"python3-mosquitto", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u3")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");