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CVE-2023-0413
Dissection engine bug in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture…
Medium6.3EPSS 0.89%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitLab
Description
Dissection engine bug in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.2 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.10 and allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitLab
- 4 days later
· 4 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitLabCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.89% · top 40% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Weakness
- Null pointer dereference in Wireshark
- CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-404 and its CVEs
Affected products
Wireshark Foundation · Wireshark
- affected >=4.0.0, <4.0.3
- affected >=3.6.0, <3.6.11
References (5)
- https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2023-03.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/18766 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-0413.json (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230208 [SECURITY] [DLA 3313-1] wireshark security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00049.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-0413)Record last updated .