CVE Catalog

CVE-2019-25572

MediumCVSS 6.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

NordVPN 6.19.6 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by submitting an excessively long string in the email input field. Attackers can paste a buffer of 100,000 characters into the email field during login to trigger an application crash.

Risk Assessment

A local attacker can cause the application to crash, which may disrupt user operations and potentially enable further attacks on the system.

Recommendation

Update NordVPN to the latest version that includes a fix for the denial of service vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

NordVPN 6.19.6 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by submitting an excessively long string in the email input field. Attackers can paste a buffer of 100,000 characters into the email field during login to trigger an application crash.

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