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CVE-2026-5479

CVE-2026-5479 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.6 HIGH

Reported by wolfSSL · Published April 10, 2026

In wolfSSL's EVP layer, the ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD decryption path in wolfSSL_EVP_CipherFinal (and related EVP cipher finalization functions) fails to verify the authentication tag before returning plaintext to the caller. When an application uses the EVP API to perform ChaCha20-Poly1305 decryption, the implementation computes or accepts the tag but does not compare it against the expected value.

EPSS 0.00% · 0.1th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0
7.6
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS Score
0.00%
0.1th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
wolfSSLwolfSSL0
wolfSSLwolfSSL0

Timeline

  • Apr 10, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Apr 10, 2026 CVE Published
  • Apr 22, 2026 CVE Updated
  • May 18, 2026 EPSS Score
  • May 19, 2026 EPSS Score
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