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CVE-2013-3555

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-3555 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the GTPv2 dissector of Wireshark versions 1.8.x prior to 1.8.7, affecting various Linux distributions and Wireshark installations. The flaw stems from incorrect function calls related to ciphers when processing malformed packets, leading to an application crash. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is easily exploitable remotely without authentication, resulting in a partial availability impact. 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
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0240 is in the 73rd 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-2013-3555Low

wireshark: DoS (crash) in the GTPv2 dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-24, upstream #8493)

May 17, 2013

References

anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-gtpv2.c
Patch
anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc
Patch
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00048.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00083.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00194.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00196.html
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/53425
secunia.com / advisories/54425
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16779
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2700
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2013-24.html
Vendor Advisory