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Fencer Vulns
low 3.6

CVE-2024-4855 json

Use After Free in editcap

published 2024-05-14 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-44433

cvss
3.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 34%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use after free issue in editcap could cause denial of service via crafted capture file

Patch / fix

  • Wireshark Foundation editcap 3.6.23, 4.0.15, 4.2.5
  • wireshark Debian 12 4.0.17-0+deb12u1
  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13 4.2.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-4855

  • wireshark SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP6, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 3.6.23-150600.18.3.1
  • wireshark SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP5, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 +1 more 3.6.23-150000.3.115.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:2265-1SUSE-SU-2024:1865-1

  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.2.5-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13978-1

  • wireshark Alpine 3.19 4.0.15-r0
  • wireshark Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +2 more 4.2.5-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-4855

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 Azure Linux 3.0 4.4.7-1

azure linux advisories AZL-45372

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

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-2024-4855 updated cvss 5.5

wireshark: Editcap secret injection crash

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark, wireshark-gnome
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Do not process untrusted packet trace files with the editcap program.”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 wireshark, wireshark-cli Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 wireshark, wireshark-cli
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Do not process untrusted packet trace files with the editcap program.”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 wireshark
    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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19782 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19783 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19784 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 3.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Wireshark Foundation editcap

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.