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CVE-2026-15168
Score 2.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-07-09. NVD baseline CVSS 3.3; sources differ by 0.8.
- 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
- 3.3
- EG Score
- 2.5(high)
- EPSS
- 1.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 8, 2026
Last Modified
July 9, 2026
References (3)
- cve@gitlabhttps://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/work_items/21361
- cve@gitlabhttps://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2026-60.html
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/work_items/21361
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-15168(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)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 12× in last 7d / 14× 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.
- 2026-07-15 16:57 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 02:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-14 13:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-14 13:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 22:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 06:12 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-12 05:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-11 17:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-11 17:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-09 19:36 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 3.3
- 2026-07-09 19:10 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-08 22:04 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-08 22:04 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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