CVE-2018-25295 (GCVE-0-2018-25295)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-26 13:19 – Updated: 2026-04-27 20:09
VLAI?
Title
ObserverIP Scan Tool 1.4.0.1 Denial of Service via IP Field
Summary
ObserverIP Scan Tool 1.4.0.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by submitting an excessively long string in the IP input field. Attackers can paste a 2000-byte buffer of repeated characters into the IP field and trigger a search operation to cause an application crash.
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Assigner
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| P10 | ObserverIP Scan Tool |
Affected:
1.4.0.1
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Credits
Gionathan "John" Reale
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Nomenclature
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