CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-11777

Origin Validation Error

Published: Sep 11, 2019 | Modified: Oct 06, 2020
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In the Eclipse Paho Java client library version 1.2.0, when connecting to an MQTT server using TLS and setting a host name verifier, the result of that verification is not checked. This could allow one MQTT server to impersonate another and provide the client library with incorrect information.

Weakness

The product does not properly verify that the source of data or communication is valid.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Paho_java_client Eclipse 1.2.0 (including) 1.2.0 (including)

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