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high 8.1

CVE-2026-95389 json

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Wireshark

published last mo. modified last mo. also EUVD-2026-88684

cvss
8.1
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 27%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

SCTP protocol dissector crash in 4.6.0 to 4.6.8 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.18 allows denial of service

Patch / fix

  • Wireshark Foundation Wireshark 4.4.19, 4.6.9
  • wireshark Debian 13 4.4.19-0+deb13u1
  • wireshark Debian 14 4.6.9-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-95389

  • wireshark RHEL 10.2 1:4.4.2-10.el10_2.8
  • wireshark-cli RHEL 10.2 1:4.4.2-10.el10_2.8

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:84721

  • wireshark openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.6.9-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11912-1

  • wireshark AlmaLinux 10 1:4.4.2-10.el10_2.8
  • wireshark-cli AlmaLinux 10 1:4.4.2-10.el10_2.8

almalinux advisories ALSA-2026:84721

  • wireshark Rocky Linux 10 1:4.4.2-10.el10_2.8

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2026:84721

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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-2026-95389 updated cvss 7.8

wireshark: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Wireshark

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) wireshark 4.4.2-10.el10_2.8, wireshark 4.4.2-10.el10_3.8, wireshark-cli 4.4.2-10.el10_2.8, wireshark-cli 4.4.2-10.el10_3.8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 10) wireshark-devel 4.4.2-10.el10_2.8, wireshark-devel 4.4.2-10.el10_3.8, wireshark-debuginfo 4.4.2-10.el10_2.8, wireshark-debuginfo 4.4.2-10.el10_3.8, wireshark-debugsource 4.4.2-10.el10_2.8, wireshark-debugsource 4.4.2-10.el10_3.8, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:84721
  • 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
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/work_items/21481 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Wireshark Foundation Wireshark

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow

References

Sources

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