CVE-2018-14438
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14438
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-14438.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-14438
- Downstream
- Published
- 2018-07-20T00:29:00.457Z
- Modified
- 2025-11-14T07:49:31.751722Z
- Severity
-
- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
In Wireshark through 2.6.2, the createapprunningmutex function in wsutil/fileutil.c calls SetSecurityDescriptorDacl to set a NULL DACL, which allows attackers to modify the access control arbitrarily.
- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/wireshark/wireshark
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affected
Affected versions
Other
backups/ethereal@18706
ethereal-0-3-15
start
ethereal-0.*
ethereal-0.3.15
v1.*
v1.11.0
v1.11.0-rc1
v1.11.1
v1.11.1-rc1
v1.11.2
v1.11.2-rc1
v1.11.3
v1.11.3-rc1
v1.11.4-rc1
v1.99.0
v1.99.0-rc1
v1.99.1
v1.99.10rc0
v1.99.1rc0
v1.99.2
v1.99.2rc0
v1.99.3
v1.99.3rc0
v1.99.4
v1.99.4rc0
v1.99.5
v1.99.5rc0
v1.99.6
v1.99.6rc0
v1.99.7
v1.99.7rc0
v1.99.8
v1.99.8rc0
v1.99.9
v1.99.9rc0
v2.*
v2.1.0
v2.1.0rc0
v2.1.1
v2.1.1rc0
v2.1.2rc0
v2.3.0rc0
v2.5.0
v2.5.0rc0
v2.5.1
v2.5.1rc0
v2.5.2rc0
v2.6.0
v2.6.0rc0
v2.6.1
v2.6.1rc0
v2.6.2
v2.6.2rc0
wireshark-1.*
wireshark-1.11.3
wireshark-1.99.0
wireshark-1.99.1
wireshark-1.99.2
wireshark-1.99.3
wireshark-1.99.4
wireshark-1.99.5
wireshark-1.99.6
wireshark-1.99.7
wireshark-1.99.8
wireshark-1.99.9
wireshark-2.*
wireshark-2.1.0
wireshark-2.1.1
wireshark-2.5.0
wireshark-2.6.0
wireshark-2.6.1
wireshark-2.6.2