CVE Catalog

CVE-2018-25241

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.36%

28th percentile - higher than 28% of all known CVEs

Summary

VPN Browser+ 1.1.0.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting oversized input through the search functionality. Attackers can paste a large buffer of characters into the search bar to trigger an unhandled exception that terminates the application.

Risk Assessment

The risk is that an attacker can remotely crash the application, making it unavailable and potentially disrupting user operations.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update VPN Browser+ to the latest version that includes a fix for this vulnerability and implement input validation in the search functionality.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

VPN Browser+ 1.1.0.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting oversized input through the search functionality. Attackers can paste a large buffer of characters into the search bar to trigger an unhandled exception that terminates the application.

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