PT-2018-12514
CVE-2018-14438
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Published
2018-07-20
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Updated
2018-09-17
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.5
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Wireshark versions prior to 2.6.3
Description
The issue arises from the create app running mutex function in wsutil/file util.c, which calls SetSecurityDescriptorDacl to set a NULL DACL. This allows attackers to modify the access control arbitrarily.
Recommendations
For Wireshark versions prior to 2.6.3, update to version 2.6.3 or later to resolve the issue.
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