Local application crash via unbounded Item Code input
Published May 9, 2025 · Updated May 9, 2025
Stack-based buffer overflow in Code Projects Departmental Store Management System 1.0 allows local users to crash the application. The bill function reads an Item Code with unbounded scanf("%s") into a four-byte stack buffer, so input longer than three characters overwrites adjacent memory. Local low-privilege access to the console is required; the demonstrated consequence is an access-violation crash, while control-flow hijacking is feasible but not demonstrated.
Summary
What happened
Stack-based buffer overflow in Code Projects Departmental Store Management System 1.0 allows local users to crash the application. The bill function reads an Item Code with unbounded scanf("%s") into a four-byte stack buffer, so input longer than three characters overwrites adjacent memory. Local low-privilege access to the console is required; the demonstrated consequence is an access-violation crash, while control-flow hijacking is feasible but not demonstrated.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-4472
- Published
- May 9, 2025
- Updated
- May 9, 2025
- Vendor
- Code Projects
- Product
- Departmental Store Management System
- Classifications
- CWE-121, CWE-119, CWE-787, T1203
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- Unavailable
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 9, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 9, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=1.0
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Public exploit references
- Department Store Management System stack overflow in bill functionproof of concept · demonstrated
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