CVE-2018-25216 AnyBurn 4.3 Denial of Service Local Buffer Overflow
Local attackers can crash AnyBurn by pasting a long string into the image file name field, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-25216?
CVE-2018-25216 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in AnyBurn, published on 26 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
AnyBurn 4.3 contains a local buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string in the image file name field. Attackers can paste a 10000-byte payload into the 'Image file name' parameter during the 'Copy disk to Image' operation to trigger a denial of service condition.
Weakness: CWE-787
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-25216?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Powersoftware Anyburn.
How do I fix CVE-2018-25216?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-25216 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-2018-25216 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2018-25216 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vp44-2wv3-gjwr.