CVE-2026-5479

HIGH

wolfSSL EVP ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD authentication tag

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1
EPSS 0.0000
EPSS Percentile 0.1%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-354
Status published
Products (2)
wolfSSL/wolfSSL < 5.9.1
wolfssl/wolfssl < 5.9.1
Published Apr 10, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 10, 2026