CVE-2026-6531 | Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in Wireshark

Exp

SANE protocol dissector infinite loop in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service

Published: 2026-04-30 Last update: 2026-05-01 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2026-6531 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.01%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2026-6531

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2026-6531

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-30 — 0.01% —

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2026-6531

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 1.8 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2026-6531

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2026-6531

GHSA-5mwh-vg7p-2624 · Severity: medium — SANE protocol dissector infinite loop in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows...

OS Trackers for CVE-2026-6531

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2026-6531 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (wireshark), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-6531
suse medium CVE-2026-6531 severity moderate: SUSE including 14 source package names (libwireshark15, libwireshark17, …), 100 product×package rows across 17 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS, … (17 product lines)): Known Not Affected 100. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6531/
ubuntu medium CVE-2026-6531 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (wireshark), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, resolute, trusty, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 9. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-6531

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2026-6531

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
wireshark wireshark >= 4.4.0, <= 4.4.14 cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wireshark wireshark >= 4.6.0, <= 4.6.4 cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2026-6531

URL Tags
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/21139 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2026-30.html Vendor Advisory
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/work_items/21139 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
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