7.5

CVE-2018-11361: wireshark

CVSS: 7.5v3.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2018-11361DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11361
Published 22-05-2018Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-11361 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in wireshark. EPSS estimates a 2.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.83%
0%100%
Low · -0.06 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 6

Timeline

  1. 22-05-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0, the IEEE 802.11 protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/crypt/dot11decrypt.c by avoiding a buffer overflow during FTE processing in Dot11DecryptTDLSDeriveKey.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.83%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

86%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.06 pp

From 2.89% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
2.83%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • wireshark< 2.6.1-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • wireshark< 2.6.3-1~ubuntu14.04.1 | < 2.6.3-1~ubuntu16.04.1 | < 2.6.3-1~ubuntu18.04.1
Wireshark1 product

3 vendors · 3 products

References

10 links