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CVE-2009-2560

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2560 describes multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Wireshark versions 1.2.0, and RADIUS-related issues in versions 0.10.13 through 1.0.9. These flaws allow remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (application crash) by processing a malformed packet trace file through the Bluetooth L2CAP, RADIUS, or MIOP dissectors. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, but only impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0200 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.11-EL3.6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.11-1.el4_8.5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.11-1.el5_5.5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-2560Low

Wireshark: various flaws in a) RADIUS, b) Bluetooth L2CAP, c) MIOP dissectors (DoS)

Jul 20, 2009

References

secunia.com / advisories/35884
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37175
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37409
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37477
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/54019
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10403
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6416
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1942
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2009/07/22/2
securityfocus.com / bid/35748
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/36846
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1970
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/3061
Vendor Advisory
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.0.10.html
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2009-04.html
PatchVendor Advisory
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2009-08.html