Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in boneIO
At a glance
Severity
MEDIUM 6.8
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 2 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
CERT-PL
NVD status
Deferred
Description
boneIO black_debian_images stores the Mosquitto MQTT broker password file at /etc/mosquitto/passwd with world-readable permissions. Any local user can read the password hashes for all MQTT accounts and perform offline dictionary attacks.
This issue was fixed in version 1.6.0.