WinMTR 0.91 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by sending a malformed payload file containing a large buffer of repeated characters. Attackers can create a specially crafted input file with 238 bytes of data to trigger a buffer overflow condition that causes the application to crash.
CVE-2018-25426
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-05-30. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 40.3%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
May 30, 2026
Last Modified
June 3, 2026
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated May 30, 2026WinMTR 0.91 Denial of Service via Buffer Overflow | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/winmtr-denial-of-service-via-buffer-overflowWinMTR 0.91 - Denial of Service (PoC) - Windows_x86-64 dos Exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45769Vendor Advisories for CVE-2018-25426(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
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