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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2024-9780 json

Missing Initialization of a Variable in Wireshark

published 2024-10-10 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-50107

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 15%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ITS dissector crash in Wireshark 4.4.0 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Patch / fix

  • Wireshark Foundation Wireshark 4.4.1
  • wireshark wireshark 4.4.1
  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13 4.4.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-9780

  • wireshark SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 4.6.4-150700.21.8.1
  • libvirt SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 11.0.0-150700.4.19.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:1169-1

  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.4.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14396-1

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-2024-9780 updated

Missing Initialization of a Variable in Wireshark

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: component 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
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20026 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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 Wireshark
  • wireshark wireshark

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-456 Missing Initialization of a Variable
  • CWE-909 Missing Initialization of Resource

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.