CVE-2018-25215 Excel Password Recovery Professional 8.2.0.0 Local Buffer Overflow DoS
Attackers can cause a denial of service in Excel Password Recovery Professional by pasting a long string into the registration field.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-25215?
CVE-2018-25215 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Recoverlostpassword Excel Password Recovery Professional, published on 26 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Excel Password Recovery Professional 8.2.0.0 contains a local buffer overflow vulnerability that allows attackers to cause a denial of service by supplying an excessively long string to the 'E-Mail and Registrations Code' field. Attackers can paste a crafted payload containing 5000 bytes of data into the registration field to trigger a crash when the Register button is clicked.
Weakness: CWE-787
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-25215?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Passfab Excel Password Recovery.
How do I fix CVE-2018-25215?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-25215 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2018-25215 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2018-25215 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Recoverlostpassword Excel Password Recovery Professional
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xfcq-73qm-28cr.