# CVE-2026-26448: Stomper 5e2741e is vulnerable to Use-After-Free.

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-08-26 · Updated: 2026-08-27

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Stomper 5e2741e is vulnerable to Use-After-Free. When a client sends multiple CONNECT frames on the same TCP connection, and subsequently another client (or a later connection) sends SEND frames to a destination previously subscribed on that connection, the broker may dereference a pointer to a StompStreamSocket object that has already been freed. This results in a heap use-after-free and process crash. Because the protocol does not authenticate or restrict such sequences by default.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/mdoi/stomper
- https://github.com/songxpu/bug_report/blob/master/Stomp/stomper_vuln4.md

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