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CVE-2018-25253: Termite 3.4 Denial of Service via Settings Buffer Overflow

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-04-04 · updated 2026-07-24
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Termite 3.4 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the User interface language settings field that allows local attackers to cause a denial of service by supplying an excessively long string. Attackers can paste a 2000-byte payload into the Settings User interface language field to crash the application.

Affected products

• Compuphase Termite: through 3.4

References

• https://www.compuphase.com
• https://www.compuphase.com/software_termite.htm
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45453
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/termite-denial-of-service-via-settings-buffer-overflow

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