Advisories

SpotIE Internet Explorer Password Recovery 2.9.5 Key Field DoS

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severity
medium
date
Affecting
  • SpotIE Internet Explorer Password Recovery <= 2.9.5

CWE
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CVSS
6.9
CVSS V4 Vector
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
Credit
Emilio Revelo
Description
SpotIE Internet Explorer Password Recovery 2.9.5 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the registration key input field that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string. Attackers can paste a 256-character payload into the Key field during registration to trigger a buffer overflow and crash the application.

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