CVE-2012-2385: Keith Winstein Mosh

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 10.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: up to and including 1.2-2; version 0.98c only; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; …

Published 2012-06-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.