CVE-2018-25423

medium

Description

Arm Whois 3.11 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an oversized input string. Attackers can paste a malicious buffer of 700 bytes into the IP address or domain input field to trigger a denial of service condition.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/arm-whois-denial-of-service-via-buffer-overflow

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45762

http://www.armcode.com/downloads/arm-whois.exe

http://www.armcode.com/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-30

Updated: 2026-05-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00012