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CVE-2013-2476

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-2476 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the HART/IP dissector of Wireshark versions 1.8.x before 1.8.6, affecting products like openSUSE and Wireshark itself. An attacker on the adjacent network can trigger an infinite loop by sending a specially crafted packet with a short header. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.1, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and a high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.1MEDIUM

AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
6.5
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0112 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 1,802 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-2476Low

wireshark: Infinite loop in the HART/IP dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-11, upstream bug 8360)

Mar 6, 2013

References

anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc/trunk-1.8/epan/dissectors/packet-hartip.c
anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00065.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00077.html
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/52471
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15838
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2013-11.html