CVE-2024-0209: NULL Pointer Dereference in Wireshark

7.8 CVSS

Description

IEEE 1609.2 dissector crash in Wireshark 4.2.0, 4.0.0 to 4.0.11, and 3.6.0 to 3.6.19 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-0209

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.8

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem Types

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Vendor: Wireshark Foundation

Product: Wireshark

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 8.83% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-07 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: poc

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0209
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2024-02.html
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19501

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