7.5
HIGH
CVE-2017-7652
Eclipse Mosquitto File Descriptor Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

April 25, 2018, 1:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

Oct. 9, 2019, 11:29 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

1.6
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2017-7652 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2017-7652 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Eclipse mosquitto
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2017-7652.

URL Resource
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=530102 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00016.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/ Patch Vendor Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325 Third Party Advisory

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

None

Updated: 4 years, 6 months ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : July 17, 2018, 7:48 p.m. This repo has been linked 494 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2017-7652 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2017-7652 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 09, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CWE Eclipse Foundation CWE-789
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Oct. 03, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-284 CWE-399 NVD-CWE-noinfo
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 16, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325 No Types Assigned https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00016.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.html Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 26, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 01, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00016.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jun. 05, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=530102 No Types Assigned https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=530102 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.html Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/ No Types Assigned https://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-284
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:mosquitto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 1.0 up to (including) 1.4.14
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 04, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 27, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.html [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2017-7652 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2017-7652 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.28 }} -0.12%

score

0.64928

percentile

CVSS30 - Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability