CVE-2026-0819

HIGH

Stack buffer overflow in PKCS7 SignedData encoding with custom signed attributes

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

A stack buffer overflow vulnerability exists in wolfSSL's PKCS7 SignedData encoding functionality. In wc_PKCS7_BuildSignedAttributes(), when adding custom signed attributes, the code passes an incorrect capacity value (esd->signedAttribsCount) to EncodeAttributes() instead of the remaining available space in the fixed-size signedAttribs[7] array. When an application sets pkcs7->signedAttribsSz to a value greater than MAX_SIGNED_ATTRIBS_SZ (default 7) minus the number of default attributes already added, EncodeAttributes() writes beyond the array bounds, causing stack memory corruption. In WOLFSSL_SMALL_STACK builds, this becomes heap corruption. Exploitation requires an application that allows untrusted input to control the signedAttribs array size when calling wc_PKCS7_EncodeSignedData() or related signing functions.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 1.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-121 CWE-787
Status published
Products (2)
wolfSSL/wolfSSL 5.5.0 - 5.9.0
wolfssl/wolfssl 5.5.0 - 5.9.0
Published Mar 19, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 19, 2026