CVE-2026-85430
MOOS essential-moos through 10.0.1 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in pShare that accepts UDP datagrams from any source and republishes them with the attacker-claimed identity intact. Attackers can send crafted UDP datagrams to pShare input routes to inject messages into the local MOOS community under spoofed identities, or send malformed datagrams to crash the pShare process.
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, without a login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 1% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 69% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 9.1 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H- CVSS v4
- 8.8
- Weakness
- CWE-345
- Assigned by
- disclosure@vulncheck.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-09-03
- Last modified
- 2026-09-08
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://github.com/themoos/essential-moos
- https://github.com/themoos/essential-moos/blob/b897ea86dba8b61412dc48ac0cfb5ff34cdaf5f6/Essentials/pShare/Listener.cpp#L132
- https://github.com/themoos/essential-moos/commit/53729b6325a991a8dbd84dcd04e4707f3e592fd6
- https://github.com/themoos/essential-moos/pull/18
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/moos-essential-moos-through-10.0.1-pshare-unauthenticated-udp-datagram-republishing