The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 4.6.8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the wireshark-4.6.8 advisory.

  - Pcapng file parser crash in 4.6.0 to 4.6.7 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.18 allows denial of service (CVE-2026-76929)

  - C12.22 protocol dissector crash in 4.6.0 to 4.6.7 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.18 allows denial of service     (CVE-2026-76879, CVE-2026-76886)

  - Kafka dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.10 allows denial of service (CVE-2025-13499)

  - BPv7 dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 allows denial of service (CVE-2025-13674)

  - HTTP3 dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 and 4.6.1 allows denial of service (CVE-2025-13945)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Wireshark installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 4.6.6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the wireshark-4.6.6 advisory.

  - Memory leak in sharkd 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service (CVE-2026-7379)

  - 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 (CVE-2026-5656)

  - Kafka dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.10 allows denial of service (CVE-2025-13499)

  - BPv7 dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 allows denial of service (CVE-2025-13674)

  - HTTP3 dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 and 4.6.1 allows denial of service (CVE-2025-13945)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
338408	Wireshark 4.6.x < 4.6.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	8/20/2026	9/24/2026	critical
349076	Wireshark 4.6.x < 4.6.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	9/22/2026	9/23/2026	high

Detections

Analytics

Plugins Search

critical

high