Wireshark vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

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Wireshark has 679 published vulnerabilities across 1 product in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Wireshark, with 679. If you run Wireshark software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Wireshark leads with 679 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

  1. Wireshark679
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None of Wireshark's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

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Which Wireshark flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

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  1. 74%

    Multiple buffer overflows in the LWRES dissector in Wireshark 0.9.15 through 1.0.10 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed packet, as demonstrated using a...

    CVSS7.5Published3 Feb 2010
  2. 61%

    The dissect_capwap_data function in epan/dissectors/packet-capwap.c in the CAPWAP dissector in Wireshark 1.6.x before 1.6.16 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 incorrectly uses a -1 data value to represent an error condition,...

    CVSS5.0Published9 Jun 2013
  3. 51%

    The LDAP dissector in Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) 0.99.2 through 0.99.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5740.

    CVSS5.0Published31 Mar 2008
  4. 47%

    Buffer overflow in the mpeg_read function in wiretap/mpeg.c in the MPEG parser in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.13 and 1.10.x before 1.10.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service...

    CVSS9.3Published11 Mar 2014
  5. 42%

    Stack-based buffer overflow in the DECT dissector in epan/dissectors/packet-dect.c in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pcap file.

    CVSS9.3Published29 Apr 2011
  6. 35%

    Untrusted search path vulnerability in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.9 and 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Lua script in an unspecified directory.

    CVSS9.3Published20 Sep 2011
  7. 29%

    Buffer overflow in the sect_enttec_dmx_da function in epan/dissectors/packet-enttec.c in Wireshark 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via...

    CVSS9.3Published7 Jan 2011
  8. 18%

    In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the IxVeriWave file parser could crash.

    CVSS7.5Published29 Nov 2018
  9. 17%

    In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.2 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.10, the CIP Safety dissector could crash.

    CVSS7.5Published1 Dec 2017
  10. 16%

    Wireshark before 0.99.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted chunked encoding in an HTTP response, possibly related to a zero-length payload.

    CVSS5.0Published26 Jun 2007
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Our catalogue lists 679 published vulnerabilities across 1 product and 345 versions from Wireshark.

None of Wireshark's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Wireshark, with 679 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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