CVE-2018-25328
📛 CVE Title
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Description
VX Search 10.6.18 contains a local buffer overflow vulnerability that allows attackers to overwrite the instruction pointer by supplying an oversized string in the directory field. Attackers can craft a malicious input file containing 271 bytes of junk data followed by a return address to execute arbitrary code with application privileges.
Overview
- State
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- Assigner (CNA)
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- CVSS severity
- high
- CVSS score
- 8.4 / 10
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Effective score
- 8.4 / 10 HIGH source: CNA overview
- CWE(s)
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- Reserved
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- Published
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- Last updated
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- Source
- https://www.tenable.com/cve/CVE-2018-25328
- Linked Threat
- CVE-2018-25328 — CVE-2018-25328
NVD triage scoring NVD CVE 2.0
Layer NVD adds on top of the CNA's CVE record — published / last-modified timestamps, exploitability / impact subscores, and the FIRST.org EPSS probability that this CVE will be exploited in the wild in the next 30 days.
- NVD published
- 2026-05-17 13:16:44 UTC
- NVD last modified
- 2026-05-18 17:38:25 UTC
- NVD CVSS v3.1
- 8.4 / 10 HIGH source: disclosure@vulncheck.com
- NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Exploitability subscore
- 2.5 / 10
- Impact subscore
- 5.9 / 10
- EPSS score
- 0.0002 (probability of exploitation in next 30 days)
- EPSS percentile
- 4.71% vs all CVEs — higher = more likely to be exploited, as of 2026-06-03
NVD-assigned CWE(s):
CWE-120
(differs from the CNA list above)
NVD / KEV / EPSS data refreshed 2026-06-03 19:54 UTC. Re-run the 🛰 Backfill from NVD button above to refresh.
European Union Vulnerability Database ENISA EUVD
ENISA's official EU repository for curated vulnerability intelligence. Carries a separate identifier (EUVD-YYYY-NNNN) and frequently exposes an earlier-published description + CVSS than NVD does.
- EUVD ID
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EUVD-2018-21852 - Assigner
- VulnCheck
- Published
- May 17, 2026, 12:11:33 PM
- Updated
- May 18, 2026, 12:31:28 PM
- EUVD base score (CVSS 4.0)
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8.6 / 10
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - EUVD-reported EPSS
- 0.0200
- Vendors
- Vxsearch
- Products
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VX Search (10.6.18)
- Aliases
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GHSA-wcf6-c97r-gp58
ENISA description: VX Search 10.6.18 contains a local buffer overflow vulnerability that allows attackers to overwrite the instruction pointer by supplying an oversized string in the directory field. Attackers can craft a malicious input file containing 271 bytes of junk data followed by a return address to execute arbitrary code with application privileges.
Vendor references (0)
References embedded in the original CVE record by the assigning CNA.
None in the CVE record.
Web references (7)
DuckDuckGo results ranked by threat-intel / vendor advisory domains. Generated by the 🔎 Find references (web) button above — same flow as the Remediations search.
- http://www.vxsearch.com tenable:www.vxsearch.com
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-25328 tenable:nvd.nist.gov
- https://www.7elements.co.uk tenable:www.7elements.co.uk
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-25328 tenable:www.cve.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44494 tenable:www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.first.org/epss/ tenable:www.first.org
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vx-search-local-buffer-overflow-via-directory-field tenable:www.vulncheck.com
NVD-tagged references (4)
Reference list NVD curates from the CNA record, vendor advisories, and third-party reports. The tag chips below are NVD's analyst-assigned categories.
- http://www.vxsearch.com disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://www.7elements.co.uk disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44494 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vx-search-local-buffer-overflow-via-directory-field disclosure@vulncheck.com
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Remediations are stored against the linked Threat row; the list below is deduplicated across both pages.
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