Security advisory

{
  "id": "ed6025713329880dff7009fb4c06a3e4b8ef3dddc29734bdd97dcc01e9ce676b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7652",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-7652",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-7652",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-7652",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-7652"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "d72ec39d79effae08011e13faf5870fa7e80fa54"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:mosquitto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.4.14"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v1.4.14",
            "v1.4.13",
            "v1.4.12",
            "v1.4.11",
            "v1.4.10",
            "v1.4.9",
            "v1.4.8",
            "v1.4.7",
            "v1.4.6",
            "v1.4.5",
            "v1.4.4",
            "v1.4.3",
            "v1.4.2",
            "v1.4.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7652.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:45.200906403Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00016.html",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325",
        "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=530102",
        "https://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-7652",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436072,
  "published_at": "2018-04-25T13:29:00.49+00:00"
}