Wireshark 4.4-4.6 DoS via Kafka Dissector Crash
CVE-2025-13499 Published on November 21, 2025

Access of Uninitialized Pointer in Wireshark
Kafka dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.10 allows denial of service

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2025-13499 can be exploited with local system access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
REQUIRED
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

Access of Uninitialized Pointer

The program accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialized.


Products Associated with CVE-2025-13499

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Affected Versions

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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.02%
Percentile
5.52%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.