---
title: "CVE-2026-95845: Moquette - Denial of Service"
description: "Moquette < 0.18.1 contains a denial of service caused by unbounded accumulation of pending per-session message queues when a fast publisher sends messages to a slow subscriber, letting remote attackers exhaust broker resources, exploit requires network access."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-95845/
---

# CVE-2026-95845 Moquette - Denial of Service

Moquette < 0.18.1 contains a denial of service caused by unbounded accumulation of pending per-session message queues when a fast publisher sends messages to a slow subscriber, letting remote attackers exhaust broker resources, exploit requires network access.

CVSS base score 7.5 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

Proof of concept available

Authentication

Not required

EPSS

0.36% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-95845)

## Details

Type

Denial of Service

Impact

Denial Of Service

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Published

23 September 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-770](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/770.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to version 0.18.1 or later.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-95845](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-95845)
- [https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/commit/2482cadfba44e615be704b892009a57ce06a1aba](https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/commit/2482cadfba44e615be704b892009a57ce06a1aba)
- [https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/releases/tag/v0.18.1](https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/releases/tag/v0.18.1)
- [https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/security/advisories/GHSA-5f42-97gr-vfhq](https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/security/advisories/GHSA-5f42-97gr-vfhq)

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