# CVE-2026-85058: Moquette: Missing Authorization in io.moquette:moquette-broker

- Also known as: GHSA-9JJC-FW8X-FMWX
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.18.1
- Published: 2026-09-18 · Updated: 2026-09-22

## Affected

- moquette-io moquette: fixed in 0.18.1
- io.moquette:moquette-broker (Maven): fixed in 0.18.1

## Description

Moquette is a lightweight Java MQTT broker. Prior to 0.18.1, PostOffice.publishWill publishes a client-controlled Last Will message through publish2Subscribers without invoking the authorizator.canWrite check used by normal PUBLISH paths. When anonymous access is enabled and topic ACLs restrict writes, a remote client can set an ACL-protected topic as the Last Will Topic during CONNECT and perform an abnormal client disconnect, causing the broker to inject attacker-controlled messages into a topic for which the client lacks write permission. This issue is fixed in version 0.18.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on moquette-io moquette, io.moquette:moquette-broker, upgrade to a fixed version (0.18.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/security/advisories/GHSA-9jjc-fw8x-fmwx
- https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/commit/e23df019f6a11e22c7d2047d4f86d07095466c97
- https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/commit/f5a323fe782d1505c0097498cb22eb6ec6c96973
- https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/releases/tag/v0.18.1

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