NanoMQ: NULL Pointer Dereference
Priority MEDIUM 48CWE-476Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · Low
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-476.
Summary
NanoMQ MQTT Broker (NanoMQ) is an all-around Edge Messaging Platform. In 0.24.8 and earlier, quic_stream_recv can dereference a null substream pointer when a substream is in reopen state. The code finishes the AIO with error but does not return before locking c->mtx.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00227 13th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-45151
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- TI-2026-27853 An issue in EMQ NanoMQ v.0.24.9 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-17589 MQTT v5 Variable Byte Integer parsing out-of-bounds: get_var_integer() CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2024-20452 Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability in topic_filtern function in mqtt_parser.c in… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-17307 NanoMQ 0.16.5 is vulnerable to heap-use-after-free in the nano_ctx_send function of nmq_mqtt.c. CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
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