CVE-2019-25572 (GCVE-0-2019-25572)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-21 12:47 – Updated: 2026-03-23 15:38
VLAI?
Title
NordVPN 6.19.6 Denial of Service via Email Field Buffer Overflow
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.
Severity ?
6.9 (Medium)
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
6.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1260 - Improper Handling of Overlap Between Protected Memory Ranges
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Nordvpn NordVPN Affected: 6.19.6
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Date Public ?
2019-02-11 00:00
Credits
Alejandra Sánchez
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