{"id":"CVE-2020-15466","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-15466","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:21:21.133Z","title":"In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.4, the GVCP dissector could go into an infinite loop.","description":"In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.4, the GVCP dissector could go into an infinite loop. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-gvcp.c by ensuring that an offset increases in all situations.","published":"2020-07-05T11:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:56:41.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-835"],"affected":["wireshark/wireshark","opensuse/leap","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.03005,"percentile":0.87294,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.00%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00026.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00038.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16029","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=11f40896b696e4e8c7f8b2ad96028404a83a51a4","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-09.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00026.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00038.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16029","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=11f40896b696e4e8c7f8b2ad96028404a83a51a4","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00008.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-13","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2020-09.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15466","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}