VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-12295

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability3.77%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-05-23
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, 2.6.0 to 2.6.8, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.14, the dissection engine could crash. This was addressed in epan/packet.c by restricting the number of layers and consequently limiting recursion.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion

Primary references