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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-5857 (HIGH 8.1) — Contiki-NG's MQTT client parse_publish_vhdr() in os/net/app-layer/mqtt/mqtt.c sets topic_len_received=1 before checking topic_len against the 64-byte limit, so an over-length topic returns early but leaves the flag set. On the next TCP segment, tcp_input() re-invokes the parser w

[NVD] CVE-2026-5857 (HIGH 8.1) — Contiki-NG's MQTT client parse_publish_vhdr() in os/net/app-layer/mqtt/mqtt.c sets topic_len_received=1 before checking topic_len against the 64-byte limit, so an over-length topic returns early but leaves the flag set. On the next TCP segment, tcp_input() re-invokes the parser w

mednvdPublished 2026-08-06

CVE-2026-5857 CVSS: 8.1 HIGH Published: 2026-08-06T22:18:10.900

Contiki-NG's MQTT client parse_publish_vhdr() in os/net/app-layer/mqtt/mqtt.c sets topic_len_received=1 before checking topic_len against the 64-byte limit, so an over-length topic returns early but leaves the flag set. On the next TCP segment, tcp_input() re-invokes the parser with topic_received==0, and the persisted topic_len_rece

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5857