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CVE-2007-3389

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-3389 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions prior to 0.99.6. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the application by sending a specially crafted HTTP response containing a malformed chunked encoding, potentially involving a zero-length payload. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial denial of service. While not actively exploited in the wild, a Metasploit module exists, and despite its age, it garners minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.99.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
16.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Wireshark chunked_encoding_dissector Function DOS · Feb 22, 2007
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1626 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: libsmi-0:0.4.5-3.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: wireshark-0:0.99.7-EL3.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: wireshark-0:0.99.6-EL4.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark-0:0.99.6-1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-3389Low

Wireshark crashes when inspecting HTTP traffic

Feb 22, 2007

References

osvdb.org / 37643
secunia.com / advisories/25833
secunia.com / advisories/25987
secunia.com / advisories/26004
secunia.com / advisories/26499
secunia.com / advisories/27592
secunia.com / advisories/28583
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200708-12.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/35207
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1498
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9964
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0709.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0710.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0059.html
securityfocus.com / bid/24662
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/2353
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-0.99.6.html
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2007-02.html