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.
History

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Moquette
Moquette moquette
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:moquette:moquette:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Moquette
Moquette moquette
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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First Time appeared Moquette-io
Moquette-io moquette
Vendors & Products Moquette-io
Moquette-io moquette

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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.
Title Moquette unbounded per-session message queues allow memory exhaustion
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2026-09-23T16:29:51.402Z

Updated: 2026-09-23T19:44:31.486Z

Reserved: 2026-09-22T16:39:45.793Z

Link: CVE-2026-95845

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-23T18:11:11.138Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-09-23T17:17:21.470

Modified: 2026-09-25T13:34:37.383

Link: CVE-2026-95845

cve-icon Redhat

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