CVE-2018-25367

MEDIUM

NASA openVSP 3.16.1 Denial of Service via Buffer Overflow

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2018-25367. PoCs published by L0RD.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a denial-of-service vulnerability in NASA OpenVSP 3.16.1 by overflowing a buffer in the 'name' field of the 'pod' sub-geometry, causing the application to crash. The PoC generates a 5000-byte payload of 'A' characters and writes it to a file for manual input into the application.

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by L0RD · pythondoswindows_x86-64
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45281

This exploit demonstrates a denial-of-service vulnerability in NASA OpenVSP 3.16.1 by overflowing a buffer in the 'name' field of the 'pod' sub-geometry, causing the application to crash. The PoC generates a 5000-byte payload of 'A' characters and writes it to a file for manual input into the application.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: NASA OpenVSP 3.16.1
No auth needed
Prerequisites: NASA OpenVSP 3.16.1 installed on Windows 10 · Manual interaction to paste payload into the application
devstral-2 · analyzed May 25, 2026 Full analysis →

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Exploit exploit
ExploitDB-45281
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45281
Product product
Product Reference
https://github.com/nasa/OpenVSP
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory: NASA openVSP 3.16.1 Denial of Service via Buffer Overflow
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nasa-openvsp-denial-of-service-via-buffer-overflow

Scores

CVSS v3 6.2
EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 6.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-120
Status published
Products (1)
NASA/openVSP 3.16.1
Published May 25, 2026
Tracked Since May 25, 2026