# CVE-2024-10525: Eclipse Mosquito: Heap Buffer Overflow in my\_subscribe\_callback

- Severity: CVSS 7.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-10-30 · Updated: 2025-11-03

## Affected

- mosquitto: from 1.3.2, through 2.0.18

## Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto, from version 1.3.2 through 2.0.18, if a malicious broker sends a crafted SUBACK packet with no reason codes, a client using libmosquitto may make out of bounds memory access when acting in its on_subscribe callback. This affects the mosquitto_sub and mosquitto_rr clients.

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## References

- https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/190
- https://mosquitto.org/blog/2024/10/version-2-0-19-released/
- https://github.com/eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto/commit/8ab20b4ba4204fdcdec78cb4d9f03c944a6e0e1c

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