DBS Etherwatch file parser crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.6 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.16 allows denial of service
CVE-2026-15167
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-08. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 2.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 5.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 8, 2026
Last Modified
July 9, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jul 8, 2026Buffer overflow in DBS Etherwatch capture file parser (#21352) · Issues · Wireshark Foundation / Wireshark · GitLab
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/work_items/21352Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-15167(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
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Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 32× in last 7d / 32× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-14 12:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-14 12:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-14 01:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-14 01:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 22:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 13:56 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 13:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 06:12 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 02:41 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 02:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-12 15:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-12 15:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-12 05:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-12 04:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-12 04:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-11 16:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-11 16:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-11 05:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-11 05:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-10 18:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-10 18:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-10 07:03 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-10 07:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-09 21:46 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 5.5 · severity → MEDIUM
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- 2026-07-09 19:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-09 19:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-09 19:10 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-09 08:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-09 08:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-08 21:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-08 21:10 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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