CVE-2018-14438

FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-14438 describes a vulnerability in Wireshark versions through 2.6.2, where the create_app_running_mutex function improperly sets a NULL DACL, allowing arbitrary modification of access controls. This is a high-severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity to achieve high integrity impact. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 2.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark::::::::

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:H/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.20%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

65.0%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0120 is in the 44th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-14438Moderate

wireshark: Improper Access Control in create_app_running_mutex function in wsutil/file_util.c

Jun 28, 2018

References

bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi

Issue TrackingVendor Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/104876

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry