High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 24, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-7651

Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur in connection phase of MQTT protocol.

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Affected products

Eclipse/Mosquitto2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:mosquitto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:mosquitto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=1.4.14
- (no CPE)range: 1.4.14
Debian/linux3 versions
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

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References

mosquitto.org/blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/nvdPatchVendor Advisory
bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00016.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325nvdThird Party Advisory

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