CVE-2018-25368 — Nord VPN 6

Nord VPN 6.14.31 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting an excessively long string in the password field. Attackers can paste a buffer of repeated characters into the password input field to trigger

01What is this vulnerability?

Nord VPN 6.14.31 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting an excessively long string in the password field. Attackers can paste a buffer of repeated characters into the password input field to trigger an application crash when attempting to authenticate.

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: 2026-05-25T15:16:19.590
• Last modified: 2026-10-06T22:10:00.247

09References

• nordvpn.com — https://nordvpn.com/download/
• www.exploit-db.com — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45304
• www.vulncheck.com — https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nord-vpn-denial-of-service-via-password-fie…