CVE-2026-6868

high

Published 2026-04-30 · Modified 2026-05-01

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

HTTP protocol dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	affected
debian	bullseye	affected
debian	forky	fixed	`4.6.5-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.6.5-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.4.15-0+deb13u1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
wireshark	wireshark	`{"startIncluding":"4.4.0","endExcluding":"4.4.15"}`	`4.4.15`

References

CWEs

CWE-121

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.