CVE-2026-76926 (GCVE-0-2026-76926)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-19 23:00 – Updated: 2026-08-20 15:26
VLAI
Title
Reachable Assertion in Wireshark
Summary
BUSMASTER file parser abnormal exit in 4.6.0 to 4.6.7 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.18 allows denial of service
Severity
3.1 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-20 15:06 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Wireshark Foundation Wireshark Affected: 4.6.0 , < 4.6.8 (semver)
Affected: 4.4.0 , < 4.4.18 (semver)
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Credits
Aisle Research (Dmitrijs Trizna, Luigino Camastra, Ze Sheng (O2Lab & TAMU), Igor Morgenstern)
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