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CVE-2018-25253

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-25253 is a medium-severity buffer overflow vulnerability found in Termite 3.4, specifically within its User interface language settings field. A local attacker can exploit this by supplying an excessively long string, such as a 2000-byte payload, to trigger a denial of service by crashing the application. The attack requires local access to the system but has low complexity, with no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit codes available on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage for this vulnerability are minimal, indicating very low public attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:compuphase:termite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

6.9MEDIUM

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
NONE
VS Integrity
NONE
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
7.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0018 is in the 17th percentile among its peer group of 3,049 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

compuphase.com
Product
compuphase.com / software_termite.htm
Product
exploit-db.com / exploits/45453
ExploitVDB Entry
vulncheck.com / advisories/termite-denial-of-service-via-settings-buffer-overflow
Third Party Advisory