MOOS core-moos through 10.4.0 MOOSDB Denial of Service via Negative Serialized String Length
Priority MEDIUM 45CWE-195Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
MOOS core-moos through 10.4.0 fails to validate that serialized string lengths are non-negative in CMOOSMsg::operator>>. Unauthenticated attackers can send a crafted message with a negative length value to the MOOSDB port, causing an unhandled exception that terminates the database process.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00655 51st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-85441
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-wfgh-7j4x-4xjq
- 2026-10-11 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
References
More themoos Core-moos vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-58653 MOOS core-moos through 10.4.0 MOOSDB Out-of-Bounds Read via Short Packet CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-58638 MOOS core-moos through 10.4.0 MOOSDB Pre-Authentication Heap Overflow via Negative Packet Length CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-58626 MOOS core-moos through 10.4.0 MOOSDB HTTP Server Unauthenticated Variable Write CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-58622 MOOS core-moos through 10.4.0 Missing Authentication for MOOSDB Publish, Subscribe and DB_CLEAR CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-58648 MOOS core-moos through 10.4.0 MOOSDB HTTP Server Resource Exhaustion CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-58641 MOOS core-moos through 10.4.0 MOOSDB Accept Loop Denial of Service CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
Sources
- CVE-2026-85441 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-85441 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-wfgh-7j4x-4xjq · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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