CVE-2019-16748

9.8 criticalEPSS 1.2%

Critical (9.8) in wolfssl wolfssl. EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In wolfSSL through 4.1.0, there is a missing sanity check of memory accesses in parsing ASN.1 certificate data while handshaking. Specifically, there is a one-byte heap-based buffer over-read in CheckCertSignature_ex in wolfcrypt/src/asn.c.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 67% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2019-09-24
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

wolfssl:wolfssl

References

https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/issues/2459
https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/issues/2459

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