CVE-2014-3426: Illinois Ncsa Mosaic

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Illinois Ncsa Mosaic: version 2.1 only; version 2.7 only

Published 2014-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.