6.5

CVE-2022-4345: wireshark foundation wireshark Infinite Loop

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-4345DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4345
Published 12-01-2023Last modified 03-11-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-4345 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Infinite Loop vulnerability in wireshark foundation wireshark. EPSS estimates a 0.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.68%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 2
DLA-3313-1DLA-3906-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12647-1SUSE-SU-2023:0343-1

Timeline

  1. 12-01-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Infinite loops in the BPv6, OpenFlow, and Kafka protocol dissectors in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.68%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

52%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.68% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.68%

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< 4.0.2-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • wiresharkAll versions (No fix recorded)
Wireshark1 product
  • wireshark≥ 3.6.0, < 3.6.10 | ≥ 4.0.0, < 4.0.2
Wireshark foundation1 product
  • wireshark≥ 4.0.0, < 4.0.2 | ≥ 3.6.0, < 3.6.10

4 vendors · 4 products

References

9 links