HIGHCVE-2026-5479Published Modified CNA wolfSSL
CVE-2026-5479: wolfSSL EVP ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD authentication tag
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.
Metrics
- CVSS v4.0
- 7.6
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 5.9.1
- Affected Products
- 1
Fix available
5.9.1
Affected packages
- wolfSSL / wolfSSL< 5.9.1 (from 0)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NReferences