CVE-2022-38152
An issue was discovered in wolfSSL before 5.5.0. When a TLS 1.3 client connects to a wolfSSL server and SSL_clear is called on its session, the server crashes with a segmentation fault. This occurs in the second session, which is created through TLS session resumption and reuses the initial struct WOLFSSL. If the server reuses the previous session structure (struct WOLFSSL) by calling wolfSSL_clear(WOLFSSL* ssl) on it, the next received Client Hello (that resumes the previous session) crashes the server. Note that this bug is only triggered when resuming sessions using TLS session resumption. Only servers that use wolfSSL_clear instead of the recommended SSL_free; SSL_new sequence are affected. Furthermore, wolfSSL_clear is part of wolfSSL's compatibility layer and is not enabled by default. It is not part of wolfSSL's native API.
EPSS 2.92% · 86.9th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
| wolfssl | wolfssl | 0 |
Timeline
- Aug 31, 2022 CVE Published
- Sep 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 2, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 16, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jan 22, 2023 PoC Published
- Mar 1, 2023 CVE Updated
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 18, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 19, 2023 EPSS Score
- Oct 18, 2023 EPSS Score
- Dec 3, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 4, 2024 EPSS Score
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/170604/wolfSSL-Session-Resumption-Denial-Of-Service.html exploit
- https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/5468 fix
- https://github.com/tlspuffin/tlspuffin url
- https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/releases url
- https://www.wolfssl.com/docs/security-vulnerabilities/ url
- 20230119 wolfSSL before 5.5.0: Denial-of-service with session resumption mailing-list
- https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/01/12/wolfssl-vulnerabilities-tlspuffin-fuzzing-ssh/ url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38152 advisory
- https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/01/12/wolfssl-vulnerabilities-tlspuffin-fuzzing-ssh url
- https://www.wolfssl.com/docs/security-vulnerabilities url