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CVE-2025-1492

Uncontrolled Recursion in Wireshark

7.8 HighFix available

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

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.30%Up 0.3 points since Feb 20, 2025
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 7.8

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

Record
CVE-2025-1492
CVSS 3.1
7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-674
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-4634 7.8

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

Record
EUVD-2025-4634
CVSS 3.1
7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-hrqm-vf6v-j4gp 7.8

Bundle Protocol and CBOR dissector crashes in Wireshark 4.4.0 to 4.4.3 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.10 allows...

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

Record
GHSA-hrqm-vf6v-j4gp
CVSS 3.1
7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-674
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 7.8

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

Record
CVE-2025-1492
CVSS 3.1
7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-674
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 7.8

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

Record
CVE-2025-1492
CVSS 3.1
7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-674
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2025-1492 7.5

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

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2025-1492
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVRHSA-2025:9121 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: wireshark security update

Record
RHSA-2025:9121
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVRLSA-2025:9121 7.5

Moderate: wireshark security update

The wireshark packages contain a network protocol analyzer used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network.

Security Fix(es):

  • wireshark: Uncontrolled Recursion in Wireshark (CVE-2025-1492)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Record
RLSA-2025:9121
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2025-1492 7.8

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

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2025-1492
CVSS 3.1
7.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALSA-2025:9121 No score

Moderate: wireshark security update

The wireshark packages contain a network protocol analyzer used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network.

Security Fix(es):

  • wireshark: Uncontrolled Recursion in Wireshark (CVE-2025-1492)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Record
ALSA-2025:9121
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2026-0184 No score

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Wireshark, a network protocol analyzer, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. This update fixes the reported issue.

Record
MGASA-2026-0184
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2025:14831-1 No score

libwireshark18-4.4.4-2.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the libwireshark18-4.4.4-2.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2025:14831-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2025:0754-1 No score

Security update for wireshark

This update for wireshark fixes the following issues:

Update to version 4.2.11:

  • CVE-2025-1492: uncontrolled recursion leading to a stack buffer overflow can cause Bundle Protocol and CBOR dissector to crash (bsc#1237414).
Record
SUSE-SU-2025:0754-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2026:1169-1 No score

Security update for wireshark

This update for wireshark fixes the following issues:

Update Wireshark to version 4.6.4 (jsc#PED-15400).

  • CVE-2024-9780: ITS dissector crash (bsc#1231475).
  • CVE-2024-9781: AppleTalk and RELOAD Framing dissector crash (bsc#1231476).
  • CVE-2024-11595: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in Wireshark (bsc#1233594).
  • CVE-2024-11596: Buffer Over-read in Wireshark (bsc#1233593).
  • CVE-2025-1492: Uncontrolled Recursion in Wireshark (bsc#1237414).
  • CVE-2025-5601: Column handling crashes in Wireshark allows denial of service (bsc#1244081).
  • CVE-2025-9817: NULL Pointer Dereference in ssh dissector (bsc#1249090).
  • CVE-2025-13499: a malformed packet can lead to a Kafka dissector crash (bsc#1254108).
  • CVE-2025-13674: injecting a malformed packet can cause a crash (bsc#1254262).
  • CVE-2025-13945: HTTP3 dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 and 4.6.1 allows denial of service (bsc#1254471).
  • CVE-2025-13946: MEGACO dissector infinite loop in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.1 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.11 allows denial of service (bsc#1254472).
  • CVE-2026-0959: denial of service via IEEE 802.11 protocol dissector crash (bsc#1256734).
  • CVE-2026-0960: denial of Service via HTTP3 protocol dissector infinite loop (bsc#1256736).
  • CVE-2026-0961: denial of Service vulnerability in BLF file parser (bsc#1256738).
  • CVE-2026-0962: denial of Service via SOME/IP-SD protocol dissector crash (bsc#1256739).
  • CVE-2026-3201: missing limit checks in USB HID protocol dissector's parse_report_descriptor function can lead to memory exhaustion (bsc#1258907).
  • CVE-2026-3202: missing checks in NTS-KE protocol dissector can lead to crash (bsc#1258908).
  • CVE-2026-3203: missing length checks in the RF4CE Profile protocol dissector can lead to illegal memory access and crash (bsc#1258909).

Also libvirt was rebuilt against wireshark for the libvirt plugin.

Record
SUSE-SU-2026:1169-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
wireshark
AlmaLinux:10
 before 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
wireshark-cli
AlmaLinux:10
 before 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
wireshark-devel
AlmaLinux:10
 before 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
wireshark
Debian:12
 before 4.0.17-0+deb12u2, plus listed versions
4.0.10-14.0.11-14.0.11-1~deb12u14.0.17-0+deb12u14.0.3-1
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4.0.5-1~exp14.0.6-14.0.6-1~deb12u14.0.6-1~exp14.0.7-14.0.8-1
4.0.17-0+deb12u2
wireshark
Debian:13
 before 4.4.4-1
4.4.4-1
wireshark
Debian:14
 before 4.4.4-1
4.4.4-1
wireshark
Mageia:9
From an advisory covering 21 CVEs
 before 4.0.17-1.2.mga9
4.0.17-1.2.mga9
wireshark
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.0
 before 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
wireshark-cli
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.0
 before 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
wireshark-cli-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.0
 before 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
wireshark-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.0
 before 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
wireshark-debugsource
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.0
 before 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
wireshark-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.0
 before 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
wireshark
Rocky Linux:10
 before 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
1:4.4.2-3.el10_0
wireshark
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP6
 before 4.2.11-150600.18.20.1
4.2.11-150600.18.20.1
wireshark
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP6
 before 4.2.11-150600.18.20.1
4.2.11-150600.18.20.1
wireshark
openSUSE:Leap 15.6
 before 4.2.11-150600.18.20.1
4.2.11-150600.18.20.1
libvirt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7
From an advisory covering 18 CVEs
 before 11.0.0-150700.4.19.1
11.0.0-150700.4.19.1
wireshark
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7
From an advisory covering 18 CVEs
 before 4.6.4-150700.21.8.1
4.6.4-150700.21.8.1
wireshark
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7
From an advisory covering 18 CVEs
 before 4.6.4-150700.21.8.1
4.6.4-150700.21.8.1
libvirt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP7
From an advisory covering 18 CVEs
 before 11.0.0-150700.4.19.1
11.0.0-150700.4.19.1
wireshark
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
4.0.8-14.0.10-14.0.11-14.2.0-14.2.2-14.2.2-1.1build14.2.2-1.1build24.2.2-1.1build3
 None known
wireshark
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
 before 4.4.4-2.1
4.4.4-2.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
first indexedCVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2025-1492 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) in Wireshark, published February 20, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.30%, the 22nd percentile. Fixed in wireshark 1:4.4.2-3.el10_0.

References

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