Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value Affecting themoos/core-moos package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.76% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-THEMOOSCOREMOOS-20078919
  • published24 Sept 2026
  • disclosed4 Sept 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Sep 2026

CVE-2026-85442  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-789  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value via the OnBytesWritten function. An attacker can exhaust server memory and disrupt service availability by sending crafted packets with large declared lengths before authentication completes.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1