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CVE-2013-4920

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4920 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 1.10.x prior to 1.10.1. The flaw resides in the P1 dissector, which fails to properly initialize a global variable, allowing remote attackers to crash the application via a specially crafted packet. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity. It is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and requires no authentication, but its impact is limited to application availability (denial of service). There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit intelligence (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available. The CVE has received minimal community discussion and media coverage, suggesting a low level of public awareness or concern.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0253 is in the 75th 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-4920Low

wireshark: DoS (application crash) in the P1 dissector (wnpa-sec-2013-42)

Jul 26, 2013

References

anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc
Patch
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/54296
secunia.com / advisories/54425
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17089
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2013-42.html
Vendor Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1.html