Medium 6.2Published Mar 30, 2026

CVE-2018-25234SmartFTP Client 9.0.2615.0 Denial of Service via Host Field

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 3:10 AM ET)

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SmartFTP Client 9.0.2615.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string in the Host field. Attackers can paste a buffer of 300 repeated characters into the Host connection parameter to trigger an application crash.

CVSS: 6.2 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-466
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: VulnCheck
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Apr 1, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Smartftp SmartFTP Client smartftp:client (from the name)	9.0.2615.0	CNA record
smartftp smartftp smartftp:smartftp	through 9.0.2615.0	NVD

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45759exploit, vdb-entry
https://www.smartftp.com/en-us/product
https://www.smartftp.com/en-us/downloadproduct
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/smartftp-client-denial-of-service-via-host-fieldthird-party-advisory

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