CVE-2026-3503

MEDIUM

wolfCrypt - Fault Injection Attack on ML-DSA and ML-KEM on ARM

Title source: manual

Description

Protection mechanism failure in wolfCrypt post-quantum implementations (ML-KEM and ML-DSA) in wolfSSL on ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers allows a physical attacker to compromise key material and/or cryptographic outcomes via induced transient faults that corrupt or redirect seed/pointer values during Keccak-based expansion. This issue affects wolfSSL (wolfCrypt): commit hash d86575c766e6e67ef93545fa69c04d6eb49400c6.

Scores

CVSS v4 4.3
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 0.8%
CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/U:Amber

Details

CWE
CWE-335
Status published
Products (1)
wolfSSL Inc./wolfSSL (wolfCrypt) 5.8.2 - 5.9.0
Published Mar 19, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 20, 2026