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CVE-2008-4681

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4681 describes an unspecified vulnerability within the Bluetooth RFCOMM dissector of Wireshark versions 0.99.7 through 1.0.3, allowing remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (application crash or abort) via unknown packets. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact, with no confidentiality or integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is unavailable, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0170 is in the 52nd percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.6-EL3.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.6-2.el4_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.6-2.el5_3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-4681Low

wireshark: DoS (app crash or abort) in Bluetooth RFCOMM dissector via unknown packets

Oct 20, 2008

References

secunia.com / advisories/32355
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34144
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/46014
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11194
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14853
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-082.htm
wiki.rpath.com / Advisories:rPSA-2008-0336
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/499154/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/31838
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2872
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html
Vendor Advisory