Critical (9.8) in cesanta mongoose. EPSS 42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An integer overflow in parse_mqtt in mongoose.c in Cesanta Mongoose 6.16 allows an attacker to achieve remote DoS (infinite loop), or possibly cause an out-of-bounds write, by sending a crafted MQTT protocol packet.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)