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CVE-2011-0445

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-0445 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.2, specifically within its ASN.1 BER dissector. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger an assertion failure by sending specially crafted packets, leading to a denial of service. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and only affecting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0278 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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-2011-0445Moderate

wireshark: DoS via crafted packets to ASN.1 BER dissector (upstream bug #5537)

Jan 11, 2011

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053650.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053669.html
osvdb.org / 70402
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/43175
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/64625
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14505
securityfocus.com / bid/45775
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0079
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0270
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2011-02.html