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Medium nvd · CVE-2026-43901

CVE-2026-43901: Wireshark MCP is an MCP Server that turns tshark into a structured analysis interface, then layers in optional Wireshark

Published May 11, 2026 CVSS 6.8

Wireshark MCP is an MCP Server that turns tshark into a structured analysis interface, then layers in optional Wireshark suite utilities. In 1.1.5 and earlier, wireshark-mcp exposes a wireshark_export_objects MCP tool that accepts an attacker-controlled dest_dir parameter and passes it to tshark's --export-objects flag with no mandatory path restriction. The path sandbox (_allowed_dirs) is None by default and only activates when the environment variable WIRESHARK_MCP_ALLOWED_DIRS is explicitly set. In a default installation, any directory on the filesystem can be used as the export destination.

Affected AI Products

mcp server
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