CVE Catalog

CVE-2018-25426

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.51%

41th percentile - higher than 41% of all known CVEs

Summary

WinMTR 0.91 has a denial of service vulnerability due to a buffer overflow. An attacker can crash the application by sending a crafted input file with 238 bytes of repeated characters.

Risk Assessment

The attack can crash WinMTR, disrupting network diagnostics and potentially affecting IT service availability.

Recommendation

Upgrade WinMTR to the latest version or avoid opening untrusted input files as a workaround.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

WinMTR 0.91 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by sending a malformed payload file containing a large buffer of repeated characters. Attackers can create a specially crafted input file with 238 bytes of data to trigger a buffer overflow condition that causes the application to crash.

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