Vulnerability · Published Mar 30, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2026-25627nanomq: OOB Read / Crash (DoS) via Malformed MQTT Remaining Length over WebSocket
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity out-of-bounds read in nanomq from nanomq. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 42% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
NanoMQ MQTT Broker (NanoMQ) is an all-around Edge Messaging Platform. Prior to version 0.24.8, NanoMQ’s MQTT-over-WebSocket transport can be crashed by sending an MQTT packet with a deliberately large Remaining Length in the fixed header while providing a much shorter actual payload. The code path copies Remaining Length bytes without verifying that the current receive buffer contains that many bytes, resulting in an out-of-bounds read (ASAN reports OOB / crash). This is remotely triggerable over the WebSocket listener. This issue has been patched in version 0.24.8.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-125 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- https://github.com/nanomq/nanomq/security/advisories/GHSA-w4rh-v3h2-j29x x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/nanomq/NanoNNG/pull/1405 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/nanomq/NanoNNG/commit/e80b30bad6d855593a68d18f2785bfaca6faf09e x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/nanomq/nanomq/releases/tag/0.24.8 x_refsource_MISC