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Fencer Vulns
low 3.1

CVE-2026-76890 json

Expired Pointer Dereference in Wireshark

published 2026-08-19 2 mo ago modified 2026-09-17 52 d ago also EUVD-2026-63161

cvss
3.1
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 12%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Crash in sharkd in 4.6.0 to 4.6.7 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.18 allows denial of service

Patch / fix

  • Wireshark Foundation Wireshark 4.4.18, 4.6.8
  • wireshark Debian 13 4.4.18-0+deb13u1
  • wireshark Debian 14 4.6.9-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-76890

  • wireshark SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 4.4.18-160000.1.1
  • wireshark SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 4.6.8-150700.21.14.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:24013-1SUSE-SU-2026:4379-1

  • wireshark openSUSE Leap 16.0 4.4.18-160000.1.1
  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.6.8-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:22014-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11579-1

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-2026-76890 updated cvss 3.1

wireshark: Wireshark: Denial of service in sharkd via expired pointer dereference

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 wireshark
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/work_items/21399 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Wireshark Foundation Wireshark

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-825 Expired Pointer Dereference

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.