FKIE_CVE-2018-25368

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-25 15:16 - Updated: 2026-07-23 19:10
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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.
References
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://nordvpn.com/download/
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45304
disclosure@vulncheck.comhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nord-vpn-denial-of-service-via-password-field
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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    }
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    }
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  "id": "CVE-2018-25368",
  "lastModified": "2026-07-23T19:10:00.120",
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          "timestamp": "2026-05-26T15:22:02.290826Z",
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