Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-7655 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
eclipse
debian
CWE-476
nessus

Summary

In Eclipse Mosquitto version from 1.0 to 1.4.15, a Null Dereference vulnerability was found in the Mosquitto library which could lead to crashes for those applications using the library.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-1972.NASL
descriptionSeveral issues have been found in mosquitto, a MQTT version 3.1/3.1.1 compatible message broker. CVE-2017-7655 A Null dereference vulnerability in the Mosquitto library could lead to crashes for those applications using the library. CVE-2018-12550 An ACL file with no statements was treated as having a default allow policy. The new behaviour of an empty ACL file is a default policy of access denied. (this is in compliance with all newer releases) CVE-2018-12551 Malformed authentication data in the password file could allow clients to circumvent authentication and get access to the broker. CVE-2019-11779 Fix for processing a crafted SUBSCRIBE packet containing a topic that consists of approximately 65400 or more
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id130285
published2019-10-28
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/130285
titleDebian DLA-1972-1 : 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-1972-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(130285);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/12/18");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-7655", "CVE-2018-12550", "CVE-2018-12551", "CVE-2019-11779");

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-1972-1 : 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:
"Several issues have been found in mosquitto, a MQTT version 3.1/3.1.1
compatible message broker.

CVE-2017-7655

A Null dereference vulnerability in the Mosquitto library could lead
to crashes for those applications using the library.

CVE-2018-12550

An ACL file with no statements was treated as having a default allow
policy. The new behaviour of an empty ACL file is a default policy of
access denied. (this is in compliance with all newer releases)

CVE-2018-12551

Malformed authentication data in the password file could allow clients
to circumvent authentication and get access to the broker.

CVE-2019-11779

Fix for processing a crafted SUBSCRIBE packet containing a topic that
consists of approximately 65400 or more '/' characters. (setting
TOPIC_HIERARCHY_LIMIT to 200)

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version
1.3.4-2+deb8u4.

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/2019/10/msg00035.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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: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:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/03/27");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/10/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/10/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019 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+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libmosquitto1", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libmosquittopp-dev", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libmosquittopp1", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"mosquitto", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"mosquitto-clients", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"mosquitto-dbg", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"python-mosquitto", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"python3-mosquitto", reference:"1.3.4-2+deb8u4")) 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");