CVE-2026-3503

Summary

Protection mechanism failure in wolfCrypt post-quantum implementations (ML-KEM and ML-DSA) in wolfSSL on ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers allows a physical attacker to compromise key material and/or cryptographic outcomes via induced transient faults that corrupt or redirect seed/pointer values during Keccak-based expansion.

This issue affects wolfSSL (wolfCrypt): commit hash d86575c766e6e67ef93545fa69c04d6eb49400c6.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
wolfSSL Inc.wolfSSL (wolfCrypt)5.8.2 < 5.9.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-335: CWE-335 Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References