# CVE-2026-85724: Moquette pattern ACL wildcard injection allows cross-tenant authorization bypass

- Also known as: GHSA-5F42-97GR-VFHQ
- Severity: CVSS 9.6 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.18.1
- Published: 2026-09-23 · Updated: 2026-09-24

## 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, when pattern-based ACL rules are configured, AuthorizationsCollector.canDoOperation substitutes client ID and username values directly into rules containing %c or %u and then treats the result as an MQTT topic filter. A client that uses + or # in either identity can broaden the substituted filter and gain cross-tenant read and write access. A # identity can also produce an invalid filter that triggers a NullPointerException in Topic.match and disrupts session processing. 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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## References

- https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/security/advisories/GHSA-5f42-97gr-vfhq
- https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/commit/b4a98bb3f3425ece476ed073aa080c627c1239af
- https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/releases/tag/v0.18.1

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