CVE-2026-5500

Summary

wolfSSL's wc_PKCS7_DecodeAuthEnvelopedData() does not properly sanitize the AES-GCM authentication tag length received and has no lower bounds check. A man-in-the-middle can therefore truncate the mac field from 16 bytes to 1 byte, reducing the tag check from 2⁻¹²⁸ to 2⁻⁸.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
wolfSSLwolfSSL0 <= 5.9.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-20: CWE-20 Improper input validation

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References