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CVE-2024-9780

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-9780 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark version 4.4.0, specifically within its ITS dissector. An attacker can trigger a crash by injecting malicious packets or providing a specially crafted capture file. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires local access and user interaction (UI:R) to exploit, leading to high availability impact (A:H) but no confidentiality or integrity compromise. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:4.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.4.0, < 4.4.1CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
16.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0025 is in the 20th percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2024-9780Important

wireshark: Missing Initialization of a Variable in Wireshark

Oct 10, 2024

References

gitlab.com / wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20026
ExploitIssue Tracking
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2024-12.html
Vendor Advisory