SSH 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-2026-15171
Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-08. a secondary CVSS source baseline 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- 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
- 5.5(high)
- EPSS
- 0.9%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 8, 2026
Last Modified
July 9, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jul 8, 2026NULL pointer dereference in ssh_keylog_process_line when opening a pcapng with malformed SSH Decryption Secrets (#21378) · Issues · Wireshark Foundation / Wireshark · GitLab
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/work_items/21378Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-15171(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 18× in last 7d / 20× 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 02:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-15 02:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-14 01:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-14 01:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 22:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 06:12 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 00:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 00:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-12 05:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-11 23:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-11 23:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-10 22:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-10 22:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-09 22:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-09 22:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-09 19:10 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-08 21:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-08 21:10 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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