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TI-2018-15593 Aliases CVE-2018-25368GHSA-x9hx-hwff-3m7w

Nord VPN 6.14.31 Denial of Service via Password Field

Priority HIGH 77CWE-789Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-789.

Summary

Nord VPN 6.14.31 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting an excessively long string in the password field. Attackers can paste a buffer of repeated characters into the password input field to trigger an application crash when attempting to authenticate.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00386 32nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by the CNA
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
NordvpnNordVPNup to 6.14.31—No fix listedCNA
  • NordVPN VendorNordvpn Affected up to 6.14.31 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2018-25368
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-x9hx-hwff-3m7w

References

Exploit 1

Other 1

  • TI-2020-19127 Nord VPN-6.31.13.0 - 'nordvpn-service' Unquoted Service Path CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.5
  • TI-2019-15625 NordVPN 6.19.6 Denial of Service via Email Field Buffer Overflow CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
  • TI-2018-07207 NordVPN 6.12.7.0 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2018-06610 NordVPN 3.3.10 for macOS suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability. CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2018-02920 OS command injection in Talos NordVPN CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8

Sources

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