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CVE-2018-14438
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-07-20T00:29:00.457 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:40:59.450

Summary

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.

Affected products

wireshark — wireshark

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References

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