Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2018-25246. PoCs published by 0xB9.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This PoC exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Wikipedia 12.0 by generating a large payload of 'A' characters, which crashes the application when pasted into the search bar. The script creates a file 'wiki.txt' containing the malicious payload.
Description
Wikipedia 12.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting oversized input through the search functionality. Attackers can paste a large buffer of repeated characters into the search bar to trigger an application crash.
Exploits (1)
This PoC exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Wikipedia 12.0 by generating a large payload of 'A' characters, which crashes the application when pasted into the search bar. The script creates a file 'wiki.txt' containing the malicious payload.
References (2)
Scores
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H