CVE Catalog

CVE-2018-25367

MediumCVSS 6.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

NASA openVSP 3.16.1 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string in the geometry name field. Attackers can trigger a denial of service by pasting a 5000-byte payload into the name input field in the Geom browser interface.

Risk Assessment

A local attacker can crash the application, potentially disrupting engineers using openVSP. The vulnerability does not allow remote attack.

Recommendation

Update openVSP to version 3.17.0 or later if available. Restrict local access to the system.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

NASA openVSP 3.16.1 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string in the geometry name field. Attackers can trigger a denial of service by pasting a 5000-byte payload into the name input field within the Geom browser pod addition interface.

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