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Description

NASA openVSP 3.16.1 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string in the geometry name field. Attackers can trigger a denial of service by pasting a 5000-byte payload into the name input field within the Geom browser pod addition interface.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-25 | Published 2026-05-25 | Updated 2026-05-27 | 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

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Product status

3.16.1
affected

Credits

L0RD finder

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45281 (ExploitDB-45281) exploit

github.com/nasa/OpenVSP (Product Reference) product

www.vulncheck.com/...p-denial-of-service-via-buffer-overflow (VulnCheck Advisory: NASA openVSP 3.16.1 Denial of Service via Buffer Overflow) third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2018-25367)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2018-25367)

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