It's not the intention of this page to discuss the opinion of certain persons that the usage of Wireshark itself is 'insecure', because you can see network data like transported passwords. Whether this is a problem for yourself will depend on the situation: A small SoHo network will probably be less critical compared to a company's 24/7 mission critical web server, capturing data from an internal network is probably more secure than capturing internet traffic, … It is expected that this will continue - at least in the near future.īecause there is always the potential for Wireshark exploits, special care should be taken to avoid security related problems while running Wireshark or at least to reduce the possible impact. This is caused by code reviews of individuals and interested parties and by the effort of the Wireshark team to automatically find bugs. In recent time, Wireshark was often mentioned in security bulletins about having several security related bugs fixed.

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