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CVE-2009-2559

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2559 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the IPMI dissector of Wireshark version 1.2.0, which could lead to a denial of service (crash). This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely without authentication, resulting in a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0217 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-2559Moderate

Wireshark-1.2.0: DoS (crash) due array index error in IPMI dissector

Jul 20, 2009

References

secunia.com / advisories/35884
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6379
securityfocus.com / bid/35748
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1970
PatchVendor Advisory
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2009-04.html
PatchVendor Advisory