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CVE-2026-95848: Moquette fails open when configured authentication or authorization classes cannot load

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-09-23 · updated 2026-09-28
• Weakness: CWE-636

Description

Moquette is a lightweight Java MQTT broker. Prior to 0.18.1, when a configured authenticator or authorizator class cannot be loaded, Server.initializeAuthenticator and Server.initializeAuthorizatorPolicy treat the failure as though no custom class was configured and fall back to AcceptAllAuthenticator or PermitAllAuthorizatorPolicy. A misspelled class name, missing dependency, constructor failure, or classpath problem can therefore start the broker with authentication or authorization disabled even though the operator configured those controls. This issue is fixed in version 0.18.1.

Affected products

• moquette-io moquette: before 0.18.1 — fixed in 0.18.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: moquette-io moquette 0.18.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/commit/14a2f4fd280c8f6a791600c306cbccecb7c67007
• https://github.com/moquette-io/moquette/pull/967
• 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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