Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2013-3557

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-3557 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 1.6.x before 1.6.15 and 1.8.x before 1.8.7, specifically within the ASN.1 BER dissector. A malformed packet can cause an application crash due to an uninitialized variable in the dissect_ber_choice function. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity, requiring no authentication, and impacting 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
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0335 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.15-6.el5_10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.8.10-4.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-3557Low

wireshark: DoS (crash) in the ASN.1 BER dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-25, upstream #8599)

May 17, 2013

References

anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-ber.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
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0341.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%3A16521
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.15.html
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2700
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
mandriva.com / security/advisories
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2013-25.html
Vendor Advisory