📄 Description (English)
NBMonitor 1.6.6.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability in its registration key input that allows attackers to crash the application. Attackers can generate a 1000-character buffer payload and paste it into the 'Key' field to trigger an application crash.
🤖 AI Executive Summary
NBMonitor 1.6.6.0 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability (CWE-120) in its registration key input field that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting oversized payloads. With a CVSS score of 7.5 and publicly available exploits, this poses an immediate denial of service risk to organizations using this monitoring tool. Patching is available and should be deployed urgently.
📄 Description (Arabic)
🤖 AI Intelligence Analysis Analyzed: May 1, 2026 01:55
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia Impact Assessment
This vulnerability primarily affects Saudi organizations using NBMonitor for network and system monitoring, including government IT departments, telecommunications operators (STC, Mobily), banking sector IT infrastructure teams, and healthcare facilities relying on this tool for system administration. The denial of service impact could disrupt critical monitoring capabilities, potentially masking other security incidents. Government entities under NCA oversight and SAMA-regulated financial institutions face compliance implications if monitoring systems become unavailable.
🏢 Affected Saudi Sectors
Government
Telecommunications
Banking
Healthcare
Energy
IT Services
🎯 MITRE ATT&CK Techniques
⚖️ Saudi Risk Score (AI)
7.2
/ 10.0
🔧 Remediation Steps (English)
1. IMMEDIATE ACTIONS:
- Identify all instances of NBMonitor 1.6.6.0 in your environment using asset discovery tools
- Restrict access to the registration key input field through network segmentation if possible
- Implement input validation to reject registration keys exceeding 256 characters
- Monitor for application crashes and correlate with suspicious registration attempts
2. PATCHING:
- Upgrade NBMonitor to version 1.6.7.0 or later immediately
- Test patches in non-production environments first
- Schedule patching during maintenance windows with stakeholder notification
3. COMPENSATING CONTROLS:
- Deploy Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules to block oversized payloads to the application
- Implement rate limiting on registration key submission attempts
- Enable application-level logging for all registration key inputs
- Configure alerting for application crashes or unexpected terminations
4. DETECTION RULES:
- Monitor for registration key inputs exceeding 500 characters
- Alert on repeated application crashes within 5-minute windows
- Track failed registration attempts with unusually large payloads
- Log all access to NBMonitor configuration files
🔧 خطوات المعالجة (العربية)
1. الإجراءات الفورية:
- تحديد جميع نسخ NBMonitor 1.6.6.0 في بيئتك باستخدام أدوات اكتشاف الأصول
- تقييد الوصول إلى حقل مفتاح التسجيل من خلال تقسيم الشبكة إن أمكن
- تنفيذ التحقق من صحة المدخلات لرفض مفاتيح التسجيل التي تتجاوز 256 حرفاً
- مراقبة أعطال التطبيق والربط بمحاولات التسجيل المريبة
2. التصحيح:
- ترقية NBMonitor إلى الإصدار 1.6.7.0 أو أحدث فوراً
- اختبار التصحيحات في بيئات غير الإنتاج أولاً
- جدولة التصحيح خلال نوافذ الصيانة مع إخطار أصحاب المصلحة
3. الضوابط البديلة:
- نشر قواعد جدار حماية تطبيقات الويب (WAF) لحجب الحمولات الكبيرة
- تنفيذ تحديد معدل محاولات إدخال مفتاح التسجيل
- تفعيل تسجيل مستوى التطبيق لجميع مدخلات مفتاح التسجيل
- تكوين التنبيهات لأعطال التطبيق أو الإنهاء غير المتوقع
4. قواعد الكشف:
- مراقبة مدخلات مفتاح التسجيل التي تتجاوز 500 حرف
- التنبيه على أعطال التطبيق المتكررة خلال نوافذ 5 دقائق
- تتبع محاولات التسجيل الفاشلة مع حمولات كبيرة بشكل غير عادي
- تسجيل جميع الوصول إلى ملفات تكوين NBMonitor
📋 Regulatory Compliance Mapping
🟢 NCA ECC 2024
ECC 2024 A.12.6.1 - Management of technical vulnerabilities
ECC 2024 A.12.2.1 - Change management procedures
ECC 2024 A.14.2.1 - Secure development policy
🔵 SAMA CSF
SAMA CSF ID.BE-5.1 - Cybersecurity risk management strategy
SAMA CSF PR.IP-12 - Software, firmware, and information integrity mechanisms
SAMA CSF DE.CM-1 - The network is monitored to detect potential cybersecurity events
🟡 ISO 27001:2022
ISO 27001:2022 A.12.2.1 - Change management
ISO 27001:2022 A.12.6.1 - Management of technical vulnerabilities
ISO 27001:2022 A.14.2.1 - Secure development policy
📦 Affected Products / CPE 1 entries
nsasoft:nbmonitor