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CVE-2019-10898

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-10898 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Wireshark 3.0.0, specifically within the GSUP dissector, which could lead to an infinite loop when processing a malformed Information Element length. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.5) could be triggered remotely without user interaction, resulting in a complete loss of availability for the affected Wireshark instance. While the vulnerability impacts various Fedora and Wireshark distributions, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0452 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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-2019-10898Moderate

wireshark: GSUP dissector infinite loop (wnpa-sec-2019-18)

Mar 10, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
code.wireshark.org / review/gitweb
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4LYIOOQIMFQ3PA7AFBK4DNXHISTEYUC5
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PU3QA2DUO3XS24QE24CQRP4A4XQQY76R
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2019-12.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/107836
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry