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CVE-2026-5500

Improper Validation of AES-GCM Authentication Tag Length in PKCS#7 Envelope Allows Authentication Bypass PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
wolfSSL / wolfSSLaffected 0 through 5.9.0

CWE

CWE-20

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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