CVE Catalog

CVE-2018-25231

MediumCVSS 6.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

10th percentile - higher than 10% of all known CVEs

Summary

HeidiSQL 9.5.0.5196 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long file path in the logging preferences. Attackers can input a buffer-overflow payload through the SQL log file path field in Preferences > Logging to trigger an application crash.

Risk Assessment

A local attacker can crash the HeidiSQL application, leading to a denial of service for the user.

Recommendation

Update HeidiSQL to the latest version that fixes this vulnerability, or avoid entering excessively long file paths in the logging preferences.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

HeidiSQL 9.5.0.5196 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long file path in the logging preferences. Attackers can input a buffer-overflow payload through the SQL log file path field in Preferences > Logging to trigger an application crash.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS