# CVE-2026-32696: NanoMQ HTTP Auth: Missing username/password can trigger a NULL-pointer strlen() in auth\_http.c:set\_data(), causing a process crash — SIGSEGV, remotely triggerable

- Severity: CVSS 3.1 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.24.7
- Published: 2026-03-30 · Updated: 2026-03-31

## Affected

- nanomq: from 0.24.6, fixed in 0.24.7

## Description

NanoMQ MQTT Broker (NanoMQ) is an all-around Edge Messaging Platform. In NanoMQ version 0.24.6, after enabling auth.http_auth (HTTP authentication), when a client connects to the broker using MQTT CONNECT without providing username/password, and the configuration params uses the placeholders %u / %P (e.g., username="%u", password="%P"), the HTTP request construction phase enters auth_http.c:set_data(). This results in calling strlen() on a NULL pointer, causing a SIGSEGV crash. This crash can be triggered remotely, resulting in a denial of service. This issue has been patched in version 0.24.7.

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## References

- https://github.com/nanomq/nanomq/security/advisories/GHSA-77f4-wvq8-mp3p
- https://github.com/nanomq/NanoNNG/pull/1394
- https://github.com/nanomq/NanoNNG/commit/c20aa27e5290bb480a5315099952480d35f37a8b
- https://github.com/nanomq/nanomq/releases/tag/0.24.7

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