CVE-2018-14438

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104876Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14921Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104876Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14921Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 20, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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