ALPINE-CVE-2018-12543

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / ALPINE-CVE-2018-12543

    ALPINE-CVE-2018-12543

    Published: 15 Nov 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-12543

    Summary:

    Details: In Eclipse Mosquitto versions 1.5 to 1.5.2 inclusive, if a message is published to Mosquitto that has a topic starting with $, but that is not $SYS, e.g. $test/test, then an assert is triggered that should otherwise not be reachable and Mosquitto will exit.

    References: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-12543

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mosquitto

    Purl: pkg:apk/alpine/mosquitto?arch=source

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 1.5.0
    Fixed -1.5.3-r0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High