📄 Description (English)
FTP Voyager 16.2.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by injecting oversized buffer data into the site profile IP field. Attackers can create a malicious site profile containing 500 bytes of repeated characters and paste it into the IP field to trigger a buffer overflow that crashes the FTP Voyager process.
🤖 AI Executive Summary
CVE-2018-25252 is a local denial of service vulnerability in FTP Voyager 16.2.0 that allows attackers to crash the application through buffer overflow via oversized input in the site profile IP field. While the CVSS score is moderate (6.2), the vulnerability requires local access and has no known exploit, reducing immediate threat. However, organizations using FTP Voyager for secure file transfers should prioritize mitigation due to the lack of available patches.
📄 Description (Arabic)
🤖 AI Intelligence Analysis Analyzed: May 22, 2026 00:24
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia Impact Assessment
Saudi organizations in the financial sector (banking institutions under SAMA oversight), government agencies, and energy companies (ARAMCO subsidiaries) that rely on FTP Voyager for secure file transfers face operational disruption risks. The vulnerability is particularly concerning for organizations with shared workstations or where local user access is not strictly controlled. Government entities and critical infrastructure operators should assess their FTP Voyager deployments, as denial of service attacks could disrupt business continuity in sensitive operations.
🏢 Affected Saudi Sectors
Banking and Financial Services
Government and Public Administration
Energy and Utilities
Telecommunications
Healthcare
Critical Infrastructure
🎯 MITRE ATT&CK Techniques
⚖️ Saudi Risk Score (AI)
5.2
/ 10.0
🔧 Remediation Steps (English)
Immediate Actions:
1. Inventory all FTP Voyager 16.2.0 installations across the organization
2. Restrict local access to systems running FTP Voyager through access controls and user privilege management
3. Monitor for suspicious site profile modifications and oversized input attempts
Compensating Controls:
1. Upgrade to FTP Voyager version 17.0 or later if available, as this CVE affects version 16.2.0 specifically
2. Implement application whitelisting to prevent unauthorized modifications to FTP Voyager configurations
3. Use endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions to monitor for process crashes and anomalous FTP Voyager behavior
4. Restrict file transfer operations to dedicated, isolated systems with minimal local user access
5. Implement input validation at the application level if custom integrations exist
Detection Rules:
1. Monitor for FTP Voyager process crashes with event ID analysis in Windows Event Viewer
2. Alert on site profile file modifications with timestamps correlating to application crashes
3. Log and alert on any attempts to input strings exceeding 256 bytes in IP address fields
4. Track failed FTP connection attempts that coincide with application restarts
🔧 خطوات المعالجة (العربية)
الإجراءات الفورية:
1. حصر جميع تثبيتات FTP Voyager 16.2.0 عبر المنظمة
2. تقييد الوصول المحلي للأنظمة التي تعمل بـ FTP Voyager من خلال عناصر التحكم في الوصول وإدارة امتيازات المستخدم
3. مراقبة التعديلات المريبة على ملف التعريف والمحاولات المفرطة الحجم
عناصر التحكم التعويضية:
1. الترقية إلى FTP Voyager الإصدار 17.0 أو أحدث إن أمكن، حيث تؤثر هذه الثغرة على الإصدار 16.2.0 تحديداً
2. تنفيذ قائمة بيضاء للتطبيقات لمنع التعديلات غير المصرح بها على تكوينات FTP Voyager
3. استخدام حلول الكشف والاستجابة للنقاط النهائية (EDR) لمراقبة أعطال العمليات والسلوك الشاذ
4. تقييد عمليات نقل الملفات على الأنظمة المخصصة والمعزولة مع الحد الأدنى من الوصول المحلي للمستخدم
5. تنفيذ التحقق من صحة الإدخال على مستوى التطبيق إذا كانت هناك تكاملات مخصصة
قواعد الكشف:
1. مراقبة أعطال عملية FTP Voyager مع تحليل معرف الحدث في عارض أحداث Windows
2. التنبيه على تعديلات ملف التعريف مع الطوابع الزمنية المرتبطة بأعطال التطبيق
3. تسجيل والتنبيه على أي محاولات لإدخال سلاسل تتجاوز 256 بايت في حقول عناوين IP
4. تتبع محاولات الاتصال الفاشلة بـ FTP التي تتزامن مع إعادة تشغيل التطبيق
📋 Regulatory Compliance Mapping
🟢 NCA ECC 2024
ECC 2024 A.5.1.1 - Information Security Policies (incident response for DoS)
ECC 2024 A.8.1.1 - User Endpoint Devices (access control and monitoring)
ECC 2024 A.8.2.1 - Privileged Access Rights (local access restrictions)
🔵 SAMA CSF
SAMA CSF ID.AM-2 - Asset Management (inventory FTP Voyager installations)
SAMA CSF PR.AC-1 - Access Control (restrict local access)
SAMA CSF DE.CM-1 - Detection and Analysis (monitor for process crashes)
🟡 ISO 27001:2022
ISO 27001:2022 A.5.1 - Policies for information security (incident management)
ISO 27001:2022 A.8.1 - User access management (local access controls)
ISO 27001:2022 A.8.3 - User responsibilities (secure configuration)
ISO 27001:2022 A.12.6 - Capacity management (availability assurance)
🟣 PCI DSS v4.0.1
PCI DSS 6.2 - Security patches and updates (upgrade FTP Voyager)
PCI DSS 7.1 - Access control implementation (restrict local access)
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