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CVE-2025-1492 json

Uncontrolled Recursion in Wireshark

published last yr. modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2025-4634

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 23%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Bundle Protocol and CBOR dissector crashes in Wireshark 4.4.0 to 4.4.3 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.10 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

Patch / fix

  • Wireshark Foundation Wireshark 4.2.11, 4.4.4
  • wireshark Debian 12 4.0.17-0+deb12u2
  • wireshark Debian 14, Debian 13 4.4.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-1492

  • wireshark RHEL 10.0 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
  • wireshark-cli RHEL 10.0 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0

red hat advisories RHSA-2025:9121

  • wireshark SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 4.6.4-150700.21.8.1
  • libvirt SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 11.0.0-150700.4.19.1
  • wireshark SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP6, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 4.2.11-150600.18.20.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:1169-1SUSE-SU-2025:0754-1

  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.4.4-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:14831-1

  • wireshark AlmaLinux 10 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
  • wireshark-cli AlmaLinux 10 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0

almalinux advisories ALSA-2025:9121

  • wireshark Rocky Linux 10 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2025:9121

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-1492 updated cvss 7.5

wireshark: Uncontrolled Recursion in Wireshark

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) wireshark 4.4.2-3.el10_0, wireshark-cli 4.4.2-3.el10_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10) wireshark-devel 4.4.2-3.el10_0, wireshark-debuginfo 4.4.2-3.el10_0, wireshark-debugsource 4.4.2-3.el10_0, wireshark-cli-debuginfo 4.4.2-3.el10_0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:9121
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 wireshark, wireshark-gnome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 wireshark, wireshark-cli Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 wireshark, wireshark-cli
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 23% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Wireshark Foundation Wireshark

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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