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CVE-2010-2993

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2993 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Wireshark versions 1.2.0 through 1.2.9. An attacker can trigger an infinite loop in the IPMI dissector, leading to application unavailability. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, but only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0229 is in the 72nd 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
secunia.com / advisories/42877
secunia.com / advisories/43068
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12031
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0076
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0212
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.2.10.html