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CVE-2026-5500

CVE-2026-5500 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.7 HIGH

Reported by wolfSSL · Published April 10, 2026

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.

EPSS 0.08% · 23.8th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0
8.7
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS Score
0.08%
23.8th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
wolfSSLwolfSSL0
wolfSSLwolfSSL0

Timeline

  • Apr 10, 2026 EPSS Score
  • Apr 10, 2026 CVE Published
  • Apr 10, 2026 PoC Published
  • May 18, 2026 EPSS Score
  • May 19, 2026 EPSS Score
  • May 20, 2026 EPSS Score
  • May 21, 2026 EPSS Score
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  • May 26, 2026 EPSS Score

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