{"id":"CVE-2018-12550","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-12550","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:34:43.512Z","title":"When Eclipse Mosquitto version 1.0 to 1.5.5 (inclusive) is configured to use an ACL file, and that ACL file is empty, or contains only comments or blank lines, then Mosquitto will treat this as though no ACL file has been defined and use a default allow…","description":"When Eclipse Mosquitto version 1.0 to 1.5.5 (inclusive) is configured to use an ACL file, and that ACL file is empty, or contains only comments or blank lines, then Mosquitto will treat this as though no ACL file has been defined and use a default allow policy. The new behaviour is to have an empty ACL file mean that all access is denied, which is not a useful configuration but is not unexpected.","published":"2019-03-27T18:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:37:58.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"emo@eclipse.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-440"],"affected":["eclipse/mosquitto"],"epss":{"score":0.01353,"percentile":0.71427,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.35%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=541870","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"emo@eclipse.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00035.html","source":"emo@eclipse.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=541870","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00035.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12550","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}