CVE-2018-25368 (GCVE-0-2018-25368)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-25 14:15 – Updated: 2026-05-25 14:15
VLAI?
Title
Nord VPN 6.14.31 Denial of Service via Password Field
Summary
Nord VPN 6.14.31 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting an excessively long string in the password field. Attackers can paste a buffer of repeated characters into the password input field to trigger an application crash when attempting to authenticate.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45304 | exploit |
| https://nordvpn.com/download/ | product |
| https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nord-vpn-den… | third-party-advisory |
Date Public ?
2018-08-30 00:00
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