UMTS FP protocol dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.6 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.16 allows denial of service
CVE-2026-15169
Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-08. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 2.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 5.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 12.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 8, 2026
Last Modified
July 9, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jul 8, 2026[Security] UMTS FP E-DCH Type-2: out-of-bounds write past static `subframes[16]` in `dissect_e_dch_t2_or_common_channel_info()` (ANT-)2026-JVHH18M7 (#21398) · Issues · Wireshark Foundation / Wireshark · GitLab
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/work_items/21398Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-15169(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 15× in last 7d / 15× 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.
- 2026-07-13 06:12 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 02:31 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 02:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-12 05:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-12 01:11 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-12 01:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-10 23:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-10 23:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-09 22:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-09 22:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-09 21:46 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7.5 · severity → HIGH
- 2026-07-09 19:10 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-08 21:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-08 21:10 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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