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$ AWS Architect · DevOps · Cloud
Thursday, August 20, 2026

coreMQTT v5.0.0 Heap Overflow – Update Required

coreMQTT before version 5.0.1 has a nasty heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability (CVE-2026-8686) in MQTT v5.0 property parsing. A malicious broker can crash your device by sending a crafted UNSUBACK or SUBACK packet. If you're running v5.0.0, patch to 5.0.1 immediately—this one's marked Important by AWS.

source: [aws/security-bulletin]