CVE-2026-44639 PUBLISHED

NanoMQ: O(N²) Denial of Service in MQTT v5 Property Parsing

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 07.05.2026 Published: 18.09.2026 Updated: 18.09.2026

NanoMQ is an MQTT broker. Prior to 0.24.14, NanoMQ's MQTT v5 property decoder in nng/src/supplemental/mqtt/mqtt_codec.c uses property_append() to walk the entire linked list for each property added by decode_buf_properties(). A remote unauthenticated client can supply a PUBLISH or SUBSCRIBE packet containing many User Properties, causing O(N²) linked-list insertion and CPU work that makes the broker unresponsive; repeated packets can sustain the denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 0.24.14.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 3.7

Product Status

Vendor nanomq
Product nanomq
Versions
  • Version < 0.24.14 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-407: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity CWE