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CVE-2013-4926

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4926 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 1.10.x prior to 1.10.1. Specifically, the DCOM ISystemActivator dissector in epan/dissectors/packet-dcom-sysact.c fails to correctly check for remaining packet data, allowing a remote attacker to crash the application with a specially crafted packet. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

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
2.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0285 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-2013-4926Low

wireshark: DoS in the DCOM ISystemActivator dissector due improper remaining data to process presence check (wnpa-sec-2013-44)

Jul 26, 2013

References

anonsvn.wireshark.org / viewvc/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-dcom-sysact.c
Patch
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%3A17547
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2013-44.html
Vendor Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201308-05.xml
wireshark.org / docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.10.1.html