CVE-2021-28166

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto version 2.0.0 to 2.0.9, if an authenticated client that had connected with MQTT v5 sent a crafted CONNACK message to the broker, a NULL pointer dereference would occur.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-28166

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.0.10-1
debian debianbookwormfixed2.0.10-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.0.10-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.0.10-1
debian debiansidfixed2.0.10-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.0.10-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.