Medium severity6.2NVD Advisory· Published Apr 4, 2026· Updated Apr 16, 2026

CVE-2018-25240

Description

Watchr 1.1.0.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by submitting an excessively long string to the search functionality. Attackers can paste a buffer of 8145 characters into the search bar and trigger a search operation to cause the application to crash.

Affected products

RubyGems/Watchrinferred
Range: = 1.1.0.0
Package: https://rubygems.org/gems/watchr

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46194nvd
www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9PN12GNX62VZnvd
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/watchr-denial-of-service-via-searchnvd

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