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CVE-2026-5500

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.9 Published: 2026-04-10 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Wolfssl Wolfssl

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References