CVE-2018-25243 — FastTube 1

FastTube 1.0.1.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by submitting an excessively long string to the search functionality. Attackers can paste a buffer of 1900 characters into the search bar and trigger a crash when the

01What is this vulnerability?

FastTube 1.0.1.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by submitting an excessively long string to the search functionality. Attackers can paste a buffer of 1900 characters into the search bar and trigger a crash when the search operation is executed.

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2026-04-04T14:16:19.993
• Last modified: 2026-07-21T07:10:00.117

09References

• www.exploit-db.com — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46199
• www.microsoft.com — https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9MXS9JVDP25V
• www.vulncheck.com — https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/fasttube-denial-of-service-via-search