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CVE-2025-1492

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-1492 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Wireshark versions 4.4.0 through 4.4.3 and 4.2.0 through 4.2.10, stemming from crashes in the Bundle Protocol and CBOR dissectors. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.5) can be triggered remotely without user interaction via packet injection or a crafted capture file, leading to application unavailability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.2.0, <= 4.2.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.4.0, <= 4.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.2.0, < 4.2.11CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.4.0, < 4.4.4CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
21.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0029 is in the 5th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: wireshark-1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2025-1492Moderate

wireshark: Uncontrolled Recursion in Wireshark

Feb 20, 2025

References

gitlab.com / wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/20373
Issue Tracking
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2025-01.html
Vendor Advisory