VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2385

medium
Published 2012-06-29 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-37306 dos linux verified
Timo Juhani Lindfors · 2012-05-22

Mosh - Remote Denial of Service

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.2.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.2.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.2.1-1
debian debiansidfixed1.2.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.2.1-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
keith_winsteinmosh{"endIncluding":"1.2-2"}
keith_winsteinmosh0.98c
keith_winsteinmosh1.0
keith_winsteinmosh1.1
keith_winsteinmosh1.1.1
keith_winsteinmosh1.1.2
keith_winsteinmosh1.1.3
keith_winsteinmosh1.1.3-1
keith_winsteinmosh1.1.3-2
keith_winsteinmosh1.2

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.