CVE-2026-5504

6.3 mediumEPSS 0.1%

Medium (6.3) in wolfssl wolfssl. EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A padding oracle exists in wolfSSL's PKCS7 CBC decryption that could allow an attacker to recover plaintext through repeated decryption queries with modified ciphertext. In previous versions of wolfSSL the interior padding bytes are not validated.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

6.3 medium

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

5.3 medium

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

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 1% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-354
Published: 2026-04-09
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

wolfssl:wolfssl

References

https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/10088

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