# CVE-2019-25546: NetAware 1.20 Share Name Denial of Service

> Local attackers can crash NetAware by inputting an excessively long string into the Share Name field, causing a buffer overflow.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.9 (`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`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Mar 2026
- **Updated:** 23 Mar 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-gv43-pc8g-6xfj

## What is CVE-2019-25546?

CVE-2019-25546 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Infiltration-Systems NetAware, published on 21 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

NetAware 1.20 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Share Name field that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string. Attackers can trigger a denial of service by pasting a 1000-byte buffer into the Share Name parameter when adding a new share through the Manage Shares interface.

Weakness: CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-25546?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Spytech-Web Netaware.

## How do I fix CVE-2019-25546?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-25546 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2019-25546 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-25546 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Infiltration-Systems NetAware

- [CVE-2019-25547](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-25547/): NetAware 1.20 Denial of Service via Add Block Buffer Overflow (medium 6.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-25546 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2019-25546 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Infiltration-Systems NetAware, published on 21 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-25546 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Infiltration-Systems NetAware. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-25546/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-25546/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-25546
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-25546
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-25546

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-25546/
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