Vulnerability · Published Apr 2, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2026-34608nanomq: Heap-Buffer-Overflow in webhook_inproc.c via cJSON_Parse OOB Read
Medium 4.9
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 0.4% (higher than 31% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
NanoMQ MQTT Broker (NanoMQ) is an all-around Edge Messaging Platform. Prior to version 0.24.10, in NanoMQ's webhook_inproc.c, the hook_work_cb() function processes nng messages by parsing the message body with cJSON_Parse(body). The body is obtained from nng_msg_body(msg), which is a binary buffer without a guaranteed null terminator. This leads to an out-of-bounds read (OOB read) as cJSON_Parse reads until it finds a \0, potentially accessing memory beyond the allocated buffer (e.g., nng_msg metadata or adjacent heap/stack). The issue is often masked by nng's allocation padding (extra 32 bytes of zeros for non-power-of-two sizes <1024 or non-aligned). The overflow is reliably triggered when the JSON payload length is a power-of-two >=1024 (no padding added). This issue has been patched in version 0.24.10.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-125, CWE-457 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- https://github.com/nanomq/nanomq/security/advisories/GHSA-8p57-jxj9-3qq3 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/nanomq/nanomq/commit/9499a4b2c47998a6aadb69238c18b9e6771b1691 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/nanomq/nanomq/releases/tag/0.24.10 x_refsource_MISC