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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-95845 EUVD-2026-85415

Moquette unbounded per-session message queues allow memory exhaustion

Published Sep 23, 2026 · Updated Sep 23, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Moquette is a lightweight Java MQTT broker. Prior to 0.18.1, the broker does not enforce a maximum length for pending per-session message queues. When a fast publisher sends messages to a slow subscriber whose in-flight window is full, queued messages can accumulate without bound in memory or persistent storage. Remote clients can use this condition to exhaust broker resources and cause a denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 0.18.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
moquette-io moquette < 0.18.1 —

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