CVE-2018-14438

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CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

EPSS

1%p66

Published

Jul 20, 2018 (Jul 20, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

In Wireshark through 2.6.2, the create_app_running_mutex function in wsutil/file_util.c calls SetSecurityDescriptorDacl to set a NULL DACL, which allows attackers to modify the access control arbitrarily.

Vendors: wireshark
Products: wireshark
Weakness: CWE-20
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.2%)

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