Cobiansoft Cobian Reflector 0.9.93 Password Field buffer overflow

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cobiansoft Cobian Reflector 0.9.93. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Password Field Handler. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2022-50689. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Cobiansoft Cobian Reflector 0.9.93. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Password Field Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Cobian Reflector 0.9.93 RC1 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by overflowing the password input field. Attackers can paste a large 8000-byte buffer into the password field to trigger an application crash during SFTP task configuration.

The weakness was published by Luis Martinez as 50789. The advisory is shared at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-50689 since 12/21/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (50789) and EUVD (EUVD-2022-55751). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Cobiansoft

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• Cobian Reflector

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• 0.9.93

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