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CVE-2026-5479

HIGH CVSS: 8.1 Published: 2026-04-10 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Wolfssl Wolfssl

Weakness Type

CWE-354

References