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.
CWE
  • CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Nordvpn NordVPN Affected: 0 , ≤ 6.14.31 (semver)
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Date Public ?
2018-08-30 00:00
Credits
L0RD (borna nematzadeh)
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