CVE-2025-56353

HIGH

Justdoit0910 Tinymqtt - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In tinyMQTT commit 6226ade15bd4f97be2d196352e64dd10937c1962 (2024-02-18), a memory leak occurs due to the broker's failure to validate or reject malformed UTF-8 strings in topic filters. An attacker can exploit this by sending repeated subscription requests with arbitrarily large or invalid filter payloads. Each request causes memory to be allocated for the malformed topic filter, but the broker does not free the associated memory, leading to unbounded heap growth and potential denial of service under sustained attack.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 20.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-401
Status published

Affected Products (1)

justdoit0910/tinymqtt

Timeline

Published Jan 20, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026