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high 7.5

CVE-2019-12295 json

In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, 2.6.0 to 2.6.8, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.14, the dissection engine could crash.

published 2019-05-23 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-3935

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.8%
EPSS 3.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, 2.6.0 to 2.6.8, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.14, the dissection engine could crash. This was addressed in epan/packet.c by restricting the number of layers and consequently limiting recursion.

Patch / fix

  • f5 big-ip_access_policy_manager 12.1.5.3, 13.1.3.5, 14.1.2.8
  • f5 big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager 12.1.5.3, 13.1.3.5, 14.1.2.8
  • f5 big-ip_analytics 12.1.5.3, 13.1.3.5, 14.1.2.8
  • f5 big-ip_application_acceleration_manager 12.1.5.3, 13.1.3.5, 14.1.2.8
  • f5 big-ip_application_security_manager 12.1.5.3, 13.1.3.5
  • f5 big-ip_domain_name_system 12.1.5.3, 13.1.3.5, 14.1.2.8
  • f5 big-ip_edge_gateway 12.1.5.3, 13.1.3.5, 14.1.2
  • f5 big-ip_fraud_protection_service 12.1.5.3, 13.1.3.5, 14.1.2
  • f5 big-ip_global_traffic_manager 12.1.5.3, 13.1.3.5, 14.1.2.8
  • f5 big-ip_link_controller 12.1.5.3, 13.1.3.5, 14.1.2.8
  • f5 big-ip_local_traffic_manager 12.1.5.3, 13.1.3.5, 14.1.2.8
  • f5 big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager 12.1.5.3, 13.1.3.5, 14.1.2.8
  • f5 big-ip_webaccelerator 12.1.5.3, 13.1.3.5, 14.1.2.8
  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.6.8-1.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-12295

  • wireshark Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.6.10-1~ubuntu16.04.0
  • wireshark Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2.6.10-1~ubuntu18.04.0
  • wireshark Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 2.6.10-1~ubuntu14.04.0~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12295

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • wireshark Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +12 more 3.0.2-r0
  • wireshark Alpine 3.9 2.6.9-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-12295

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

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-2019-12295 updated cvss 7.5

wireshark: missing dissection recursion checks leads to denial of service

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 wireshark Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 wireshark, wireshark-cli
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

3.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
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

Classification

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Sources

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