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CVE-2012-2385 json

The terminal dispatcher in mosh before 1.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (long loop and CPU consumption)…

published 2012-06-29 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-2373

cvss
4.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.8%
EPSS 10.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • mosh Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.2.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2385

  • mosh openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.2.5-3.4

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10341-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-2385 updated cvss 4.3

mosh: DoS (excessive CPU use) by processing short ANSI escape sequence

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-37306)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

10.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-37306 Mosh - Remote Denial of Service dos, 2012-05-22

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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