Wireshark 4.2-4.4.3 Bundle & CBOR Dissectors DoS (Crashes)
CVE-2025-1492 Published on February 20, 2025
Uncontrolled Recursion in Wireshark
Bundle Protocol and CBOR dissector crashes in Wireshark 4.4.0 to 4.4.3 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.10 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-1492 is exploitable 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.
Weakness Type
What is a Stack Exhaustion Vulnerability?
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion which takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
CVE-2025-1492 has been classified to as a Stack Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-1492
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Affected Versions
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark:- Version 4.4.0 and below 4.4.4 is affected.
- Version 4.2.0 and below 4.2.11 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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