CVE-2025-1492 (GCVE-0-2025-1492)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-20 01:30 – Updated: 2026-03-27 13:56
VLAI
Title
Uncontrolled Recursion in Wireshark
Summary
Bundle Protocol and CBOR dissector crashes in Wireshark 4.4.0 to 4.4.3 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.10 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark Affected: 4.4.0 , < 4.4.4 (semver)
Affected: 4.2.0 , < 4.2.11 (semver)
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Credits
OSS-Fuzz
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