CVE-2022-4345 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Infinite loops in the BPv6, OpenFlow, and Kafka protocol dissectors in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.9 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00027.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Wireshark	Wireshark

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark::::::::

No data.

No data.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-4345.json
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00007.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RDZMWIKH3L5JQZC6GSVOJ3N5UXNQPJGQ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SGWIW6K64PKC375YAONYXKIVT2FDEDV3/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4345
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4345
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2022-09.html

History

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2023-01-12T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-08T16:45:50.529Z

Reserved: 2022-12-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-4345

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:34:50.168Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-12T04:15:10.663

Modified: 2025-04-08T17:15:34.117

Link: CVE-2022-4345

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-01-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-4345 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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