CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-14438

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-07-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-07-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

In Wireshark through 2.6.2, the create_app_running_mutex function in wsutil/file_util.c calls SetSecurityDescriptorDacl to set a NULL DACL, which allows attackers to modify the access control arbitrarily.

Affected configurations

• wireshark wireshark (<= 2.6.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References