pcapng file parser crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.6 allows denial of service
CVE-2026-15173
Score 4.7 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-08. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; 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
- 5.5
- EG Score
- 4.7(high)
- EPSS
- 0.6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 8, 2026
Last Modified
July 9, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jul 8, 2026Darwin DPIB UUID option rewrite heap overflow (#21285) · Issues · Wireshark Foundation / Wireshark · GitLab
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/work_items/21285Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-15173(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 14× 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.
- 2026-07-13 05:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 05:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-12 05:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-12 03:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-12 03:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-11 01:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-11 01:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-09 23:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-09 23:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-09 19:36 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 5.5
- 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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