Security readout for executives and security teams
This CVE describes a local denial-of-service issue in NCSA Mosaic 2.0 and earlier. A user with local access could interfere with Mosaic’s remote-control function by abusing predictable temporary PID-file names. Business impact is limited to environments still running this historical browser and allowing local users on the same system. Likely exposure is narrow: systems running NCSA Mosaic 2.0 or earlier where untrusted local users can write to shared temporary storage. The provided affected metadata is sparse, so inventory confirmation is required. Treat this as low priority unless legacy NCSA Mosaic exists in a shared or multi-user environment. The main action is inventory validation, not emergency response. Mitigation focus: Identify and remove unsupported NCSA Mosaic installations where practical.; Restrict local interactive access on systems running affected Mosaic versions.; Avoid running affected software on multi-user systems with untrusted users..
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