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Description

SmartFTP Client 9.0.2615.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string in the Host field. Attackers can paste a buffer of 300 repeated characters into the Host connection parameter to trigger an application crash.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-30 | Published 2026-03-30 | Updated 2026-04-01 | Assigner VulnCheck




MEDIUM: 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
MEDIUM: 6.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem types

Return of Pointer Value Outside of Expected Range

Product status

9.0.2615.0
affected

Credits

Victor Mondragón finder

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45759 (ExploitDB-45759) exploit

www.smartftp.com/en-us/ (Official Product Homepage) product

www.smartftp.com/en-us/download (Product Reference) product

www.vulncheck.com/...client-denial-of-service-via-host-field (VulnCheck Advisory: SmartFTP Client 9.0.2615.0 Denial of Service via Host Field) third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2018-25234)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2018-25234)

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