CVE-2018-25262

Angry IP Scanner for Linux 3.5.3 Denial of Service

CVSS 6.9 MEDIUMEPSS 0.2%CWE-787

Vexday Risk Score

33Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

Exploit maturity

Proof of concept

Public proof of concept exists, but not yet automated.

CVSS 6.9EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

22 Apr 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

Angry IP Scanner for Linux 3.5.3 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying malformed input to the port selection field. Attackers can craft a malicious string containing buffer overflow patterns and paste it into the Preferences Ports tab to trigger an application crash.

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

Affected products

Angryip · Angry IP Scanner for Linux

public PoCs found — 1

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/46038unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

https://angryip.org/https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46038 https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/angry-ip-scanner-for-linux-denial-of-service