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Vulnerability record · CVE-2024-3935 · published 30 October 2024

CVE-2024-3935: Eclipse mosquitto double free vulnerability

Eclipse · Mosquitto

In Eclipse Mosquito, versions from 2.0.0 through 2.0.18, if a Mosquitto broker is configured to create an outgoing bridge connection, and that bridge connection has an incoming topic configured that makes use of topic remapping, then if the remote connection sends a crafted PUBLISH packet to the broker a double free will occur with a subsequent crash of the broker.

6.0 CVSS 4.0 Medium EPSS 0.75% · top 46.9% CWE-415 · Double free
6.0CVSS 4.0 base score
0.75%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
4References, 1 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

In Eclipse Mosquito, versions from 2.0.0 through 2.0.18, if a Mosquitto broker is configured to create an outgoing bridge connection, and that bridge connection has an incoming topic configured that makes use of topic remapping, then if the remote connection sends a crafted PUBLISH packet to the broker a double free will occur with a subsequent crash of the broker.

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://github.com/eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto/commit/ae7a804dadac8f2aaedb24336df8496a9680fda9 Patch
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/197 ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://mosquitto.org/blog/2024/10/version-2-0-19-released/ Release Notes
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00022.html

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2024-3935), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.