CVE-2012-2385

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-06-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

Keith Winstein Mosh: through 1.2-2; 0.98c, 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3 (+3)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082766.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082814.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082850.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49260
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/22/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53646
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823943
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75779
https://github.com/keithw/mosh/blob/master/ChangeLog
https://github.com/keithw/mosh/commit/9791768705528e911bfca6c4d8aa88139035060e
https://github.com/keithw/mosh/issues/271
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082766.html

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