# CVE-2026-34608: nanomq: Heap-Buffer-Overflow in webhook\_inproc.c via cJSON\_Parse OOB Read

- Severity: CVSS 4.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.24.10
- Published: 2026-04-02 · Updated: 2026-04-02

## Affected

- nanomq: fixed in 0.24.10

## Description

NanoMQ MQTT Broker (NanoMQ) is an all-around Edge Messaging Platform. Prior to version 0.24.10, in NanoMQ's webhook_inproc.c, the hook_work_cb() function processes nng messages by parsing the message body with cJSON_Parse(body). The body is obtained from nng_msg_body(msg), which is a binary buffer without a guaranteed null terminator. This leads to an out-of-bounds read (OOB read) as cJSON_Parse reads until it finds a \0, potentially accessing memory beyond the allocated buffer (e.g., nng_msg metadata or adjacent heap/stack). The issue is often masked by nng's allocation padding (extra 32 bytes of zeros for non-power-of-two sizes <1024 or non-aligned). The overflow is reliably triggered when the JSON payload length is a power-of-two >=1024 (no padding added). This issue has been patched in version 0.24.10.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on nanomq, upgrade to a fixed version (0.24.10) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/nanomq/nanomq/security/advisories/GHSA-8p57-jxj9-3qq3
- https://github.com/nanomq/nanomq/commit/9499a4b2c47998a6aadb69238c18b9e6771b1691
- https://github.com/nanomq/nanomq/releases/tag/0.24.10

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