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CVE-2026-5656

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in Wireshark PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Profile import path traversal in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service and possible code execution

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Wireshark Foundation / Wiresharkaffected 4.6.0 before 4.6.5; affected 4.4.0 before 4.4.15

CWE

CWE-22

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.

redhat-SADP

A flaw was found in Wireshark. A path traversal can occur when a malformed configuration profile is imported, resulting in a denial of service or potentially in code execution.