CVE-2026-15442CWE-416

CVE-2026-15442

Medium · published September 27, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
21.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In all builds that make use of (D)TLS, including default builds, there is a series of conditional states during the TLS shutdown which could lead to a heap-use-after free. If an application ended up getting a partial wolfSSL_read() which is sometimes caused by a small user buffer passed in, then called wolfSSL_shutdown for a bidirectional close and attempted to wolfSSL_read() again while the peer continues trying to send data during the shutdown it would lead to a state where a potential heap-use-after free happened.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
2.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00304 · 21.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2026-09-27T14:16Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
wolfssl/wolfssl≥ 4.4.0, ≤ 5.9.2—
References (1)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 SEP 03:26Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 27 SEP 09:24Z
    Heap use-after-free on read during bidirectional (D)TLS shutdown
    cvelistv5