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CVE-2017-7705

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7705 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark versions 2.2.0 to 2.2.5 and 2.0.0 to 2.0.11. An attacker could trigger an infinite loop in the RPC over RDMA dissector by injecting malicious packets or providing a specially crafted capture file. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3 score of 7.5 (High), indicating a high availability impact without requiring user interaction or authentication. 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
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0273 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: wireshark
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: wireshark

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7705Moderate

wireshark: RPCoRDMA dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2017-15)

Apr 12, 2017

References

bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatch
code.wireshark.org / review/gitweb
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201706-12
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2017-15.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/97630
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1038262