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CVE-2012-2385
The terminal dispatcher in mosh before 1.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (long loop and CPU…
Medium4.0EPSS 10.8%
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- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
The terminal dispatcher in mosh before 1.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (long loop and CPU consumption) via an escape sequence with a large repeat count value.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.8% · top 4.2% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- FEDORA-2012-9422 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://github.com/keithw/mosh/commit/9791768705528e911bfca6c4d8aa88139035060e (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-9414 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-9442 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 53646 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 49260 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120522 Re: CVE Request -- mosh (and probably vte too): mosh server DoS (long loop) due improper parsing of terminal parameters in terminal dispatcher (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/keithw/mosh/issues/271 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823943 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- mosh-sequences-dos(75779) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://github.com/keithw/mosh/blob/master/ChangeLog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .