CVE-2026-85450

MOOS core-moos through 10.4.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the MOOSDB HTTP server that creates unbounded connections and threads without limits. Attackers can open many connections and send endless header data to exhaust server threads and memory, causing service unavailability.

CVSS 4.0

8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 49% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-770

Published

2026-09-03

Modified

2026-10-14

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• themoos:core-moos

References

• https://github.com/themoos/core-moos
• https://github.com/themoos/core-moos/blob/ec9c77c68fcbdef8f5e4c60fe243acd223433f0c/Core/libMOOS/DB/HTTPConnection.cpp#L167
• https://github.com/themoos/core-moos/commit/dfef92b3bc31886bc47e4d680aef583b78cb8d72
• https://github.com/themoos/core-moos/pull/79
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/moos-core-moos-through-10.4.0-moosdb-http-server-resource-exhaustion

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