Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Jun 5, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-7653
CVE-2017-7653
Description
The Eclipse Mosquitto broker up to version 1.4.15 does not reject strings that are not valid UTF-8. A malicious client could cause other clients that do reject invalid UTF-8 strings to disconnect themselves from the broker by sending a topic string which is not valid UTF-8, and so cause a denial of service for the clients.
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References
5- docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/disallowed-chars/v1.0/disallowed-chars-v1.0.pdfnvdThird Party Advisory
- bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00036.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/4023-1/nvd
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