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CVE-2015-0559

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-0559 describes multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities within the WCCP dissector in Wireshark versions 1.10.x before 1.10.12 and 1.12.x before 1.12.3, affecting products like openSUSE. These flaws allow remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (application crash) through specially crafted packets due to improper memory handling. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to 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
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0158 is in the 57th 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-2015-0559Moderate

wireshark: WCCP dissector crash (wnpa-sec-2015-01)

Jan 7, 2015

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00053.html
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
code.wireshark.org / review/gitweb
secunia.com / advisories/62612
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2015-01.html
Vendor Advisory