CVE-2018-25288CWE-120
StyleWriter 1.0 Denial of Service via Pattern Input
Medium · published April 26, 2026
What it is
StyleWriter 1.0 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string. Attackers can paste a 6000-byte payload into the Pattern to Find or Advice Message fields in the Add Pattern dialog to trigger a denial of service condition.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v4.0
- 6.9 · MEDIUM
- 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
- EPSS
- 0.00137 · 2.8th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
- Published
- 2026-04-26T13:19Z
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