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high 7.5

CVE-2021-22235 json

Crash in DNP dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.6 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.14 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

published 2021-07-20 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-9381

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Crash in DNP dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.6 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.14 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Patch / fix

  • wireshark wireshark 3.2.15, 3.4.7
  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.4.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-22235

  • wireshark SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP3, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP2, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 +1 more 3.4.7-3.59.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:3017-1

  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.4.8-1.2
  • wireshark openSUSE Leap 15.2 3.4.7-lp152.2.18.1
  • wireshark openSUSE Leap 15.3 3.4.7-3.59.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11513-1openSUSE-SU-2021:1276-1openSUSE-SU-2021:3017-1

  • wireshark Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +8 more 3.4.7-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2021-22235

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • wireshark CBL-Mariner 2.0 3.4.14-1

azure linux advisories AZL-7407

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

  • wireshark-cli Arch Linux 3.4.7-1

arch linux advisories AVG-2160

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-22235 updated cvss 7.5

wireshark: DNP dissector crash

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 wireshark, wireshark-cli Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 wireshark, wireshark-cli
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17462 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • The Wireshark Foundation Wireshark

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

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