CVE-2024-24478 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue in Wireshark before 4.2.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the packet-bgp.c, dissect_bgp_open(tvbuff_t*tvb, proto_tree*tree, packet_info*pinfo), optlen components. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because neither release 4.2.0 nor any other release was affected.

Published: 2024-02-21

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00277.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://gist.github.com/1047524396/e82c55147cd3cb62ef20cbdb0ec83694
https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/80a4dc55f4d2fa33c2b36a99406500726d3faaef
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19347
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24478
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-24478

History

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Subscriptions

Wireshark Wireshark

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-02-21T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T23:19:52.890Z

Reserved: 2024-01-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-24478

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-07-26T19:56:10.940Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-02-21T17:15:09.567

Modified: 2025-04-14T12:54:51.287

Link: CVE-2024-24478

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-02-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-24478 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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