X.509IF protocol dissector crash in 4.6.0 to 4.6.7 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.18 allows denial of service
CVE-2026-76928
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-20. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- 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
- 7.5(high)
- EG Risk
- 49(Track)EG Risk 49/100SSVC: Track
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How it’s computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 21%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 19, 2026
Last Modified
August 20, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Aug 19, 2026Nested DistinguishedName corrupts X.509IF DN/RDN formatting state (#21469) · Issues · Wireshark Foundation / Wireshark · GitLab
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/work_items/21469Wireshark • Go Deep | Wireshark • wnpa-sec-2026-87 X.509IF protocol dissector crash
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2026-87.htmlVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-76928(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 12× in last 7d / 12× 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.
- 2026-08-21 05:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-21 05:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 22:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-20 17:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-20 17:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 16:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-20 16:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 11:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-20 11:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 23:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 23:04 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 23:02 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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