CVE Catalog

CVE-2018-25368

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.39%

31th percentile - higher than 31% of all known CVEs

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.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can crash the VPN application, disrupting service availability.

Recommendation

Update Nord VPN to a version later than 6.14.31 that includes a fix.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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