CVE-2025-10543

MEDIUM

Eclipse Paho Go MQTT v3.1 <=1.5.0 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In Eclipse Paho Go MQTT v3.1 library (paho.mqtt.golang) versions <=1.5.0 UTF-8 encoded strings, passed into the library, may be incorrectly encoded if their length exceeds 65535 bytes. This may lead to unexpected content in packets sent to the server (for example, part of an MQTT topic may leak into the message body in a PUBLISH packet). The issue arises because the length of the data passed in was converted from an int64/int32 (depending upon CPU) to an int16 without checks for overflows. The int16 length was then written, followed by the data (e.g. topic). This meant that when the data (e.g. topic) was over 65535 bytes then the amount of data written exceeds what the length field indicates. This could lead to a corrupt packet, or mean that the excess data leaks into another field (e.g. topic leaks into message body).

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 10.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-681 CWE-197
Status published
Products (2)
eclipse/paho.mqtt.golang 0 - 1.5.1Go
eclipse/paho_mqtt < 1.5.0
Published Dec 02, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026