# 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.

- **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:** 22 Mar 2026
- **Updated:** 23 Mar 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3vfg-jj7g-vwj6

## 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 (Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-25596?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-25336/): SpotAuditor 5.3.2 - 'Base64' Local Buffer Overflow (SEH) (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2019-25666](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-25666/): SpotAuditor 3.6.7 Denial of Service Buffer Overflow (medium 6.9)
- [CVE-2019-25434](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-25434/): SpotAuditor 5.3.1.0 Denial of Service via Registration Name Field (medium 6.7)
- [CVE-2019-25340](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-25340/): SpotAuditor 5.3.2 - 'Base64' Denial Of Service (medium 6.7)
- [CVE-2021-27722](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-27722/): Memory corruption in n/a (medium 5.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-25596 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2019-25596 exists.

Affected product: Nsauditor SpotAuditor. 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-2019-25596/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-25596/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-25596
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-25596
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-25596

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-25596/
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