CVE-2026-5500

8.7 highEPSS 0.5%

High (8.7) in wolfssl wolfssl. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

8.7 high

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

CVSS 3.1

5.9 medium

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2026-04-10
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

wolfssl:wolfssl

References

https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/10102

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