CVE-2026-0819CWE-121CWE-787

Stack buffer overflow in PKCS7 SignedData encoding with custom signed attributes

Low · published March 19, 2026

CVSS v4.0
2.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
0.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
2.2 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
EPSS
0.00103 · 0.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow; CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2026-03-19T16:54Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 MAR 16:54Z
    Stack buffer overflow in PKCS7 SignedData encoding with custom signed attributes
    cvelistv5