CVE-2019-25596 SpotAuditor 5.2.6 Name Field Denial of Service
Local attackers can crash SpotAuditor by entering an excessively long string in the registration 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-2019-25596?
CVE-2019-25596 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Nsauditor SpotAuditor, published on 22 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
SpotAuditor 5.2.6 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the registration dialog that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string in the Name field. Attackers can paste a buffer of 300 repeated characters into the Name input during registration to trigger an application crash.
Weakness: CWE-1287
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-25596?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nsasoft Spotauditor.
How do I fix CVE-2019-25596?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-25596 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2019-25596 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2019-25596 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Nsauditor SpotAuditor
- CVE-2019-25336 SpotAuditor 5.3.2 - 'Base64' Local Buffer Overflow (SEH)
- CVE-2019-25666 SpotAuditor 3.6.7 Denial of Service Buffer Overflow
- CVE-2019-25434 SpotAuditor 5.3.1.0 Denial of Service via Registration Name Field
- CVE-2019-25340 SpotAuditor 5.3.2 - 'Base64' Denial Of Service
- CVE-2021-27722 Memory corruption in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3vfg-jj7g-vwj6.