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CVE-2013-2488

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-2488 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the DTLS dissector of Wireshark versions 1.6.x prior to 1.6.14 and 1.8.x prior to 1.8.6. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this by sending a crafted DTLS packet with a large fragment offset, leading to an application crash due to invalid memory access. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium) with low attack complexity and no impact on confidentiality or integrity, only availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

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

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
2.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0283 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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 0.4 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-2013-2488Low

wireshark: Crash in the DTLS dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-22, upstream bug 8380)

Mar 6, 2013

References

anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc
Vendor Advisory
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%3A16672
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2644
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.14.html
Vendor Advisory
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.8.6.html
Vendor Advisory
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2013-22.html
Vendor Advisory