{"id":"CVE-2014-3425","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2014-3425","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:44:17.788Z","title":"NCSA Mosaic 2.0 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (\"remote control\" outage) by creating a /tmp/xmosaic.pid file for every possible PID.","description":"NCSA Mosaic 2.0 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (\"remote control\" outage) by creating a /tmp/xmosaic.pid file for every possible PID.","published":"2014-05-08T10:55:06.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:08:10.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":2.1,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["illinois/ncsa mosaic"],"epss":{"score":0.00288,"percentile":0.21123,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.29%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2014-05/msg00057.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/07/7","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2014-05/msg00057.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/07/7","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3425","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}