CVE-2014-3426

low
Published 2014-05-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
2.1

Description

NCSA Mosaic 2.1 through 2.7b5 allows local users to cause a denial of service ("remote control" outage) by creating a /tmp/Mosaic.pid file for every possible PID.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
illinoisncsa_mosaic2.1
illinoisncsa_mosaic2.7

References

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