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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-42209 EUVD-2026-28838

FlashMQ: Division by zero crash when using non-default deferred retained message setting

Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

FlashMQ is a MQTT broker/server, designed for multi-CPU environments. Prior to version 1.26.1, a remote client with retained publish permission can crash the FlashMQ broker when both set_retained_message_defer_timeout and set_retained_message_defer_timeout_spread are configured to non-default values, resulting in denial of service. If anonymous retained publishing is allowed, no authentication is required; otherwise, the attacker needs the corresponding publish permission. This issue has been patched in version 1.26.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
halfgaar FlashMQ < 1.26.1 —

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