CVE-2020-9428

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

EPSS

3%p87

Published

Feb 27, 2020 (Feb 27, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, 3.0.0 to 3.0.8, and 2.6.0 to 2.6.14, the EAP dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-eap.c by using more careful sscanf parsing.

Vendors: wireshark debian fedoraproject opensuse
Products: wireshark, debian linux, fedora, leap
Weakness: CWE-125
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (3.1%)

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