CVE Catalog

CVE-2018-25369

MediumCVSS 6.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs

Summary

Visual Ping 0.8.0.0 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in input field handling, allowing local attackers to crash the application by supplying oversized data. Attackers can inject malicious payloads exceeding 4108 bytes into the Host, Time Out, Packet Size, Pause, or Loops fields to trigger a denial of service condition.

Risk Assessment

The risk is the potential for local disruption of the Visual Ping application, which may lead to interruptions in network monitoring and loss of availability of the diagnostic tool.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Visual Ping to the latest version that fixes this vulnerability and restrict application access to trusted users only.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Visual Ping 0.8.0.0 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in input field handling that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying oversized data. Attackers can inject malicious payloads exceeding 4108 bytes into the Host, Time Out, Packet Size, Pause, or Loops fields to trigger a denial of service condition.

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