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CocoaMQTT: Denial of Service via Reachable Assertion in `PUBLISH` Packet Parsing

Published Apr 2, 2026

Description

CocoaMQTT is a MQTT 5.0 client library for iOS and macOS written in Swift. Prior to version 2.2.2, a vulnerability exists in the packet parsing logic of CocoaMQTT that allows an attacker (or a compromised/malicious MQTT broker) to remotely crash the host iOS/macOS/tvOS application. If an attacker publishes the 4-byte malformed payload to a shared topic with the RETAIN flag set to true, the MQTT broker will persist the payload. Any time a vulnerable client connects and subscribes to that topic, the broker will automatically push the malformed packet. The app will instantly crash in the background before the user can even interact with it. This effectively "bricks" the mobile application (a persistent DoS) until the retained message is manually wiped from the broker database. This issue has been patched in version 2.2.2.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

References (6)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_M
Published Apr 2, 2026
Updated Apr 2, 2026
Reserved Mar 5, 2026
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Apr 2, 2026
NVD
Status Analyzed
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
GHSA-R3FR-7M74-Q7G2