Vulnerability CVE-2018-14438
Published: 2018-07-19   Modified: 2018-07-20

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.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Wireshark -> Wireshark 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104876
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14921
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