CVE-2026-5500CWE-20
Improper Validation of AES-GCM Authentication Tag Length in PKCS#7 Envelope Allows Authentication Bypass
High · published April 10, 2026
What it is
wolfSSL's wc_PKCS7_DecodeAuthEnvelopedData() does not properly sanitize the AES-GCM authentication tag length received and has no lower bounds check. A man-in-the-middle can therefore truncate the mac field from 16 bytes to 1 byte, reducing the tag check from 2⁻¹²⁸ to 2⁻⁸.
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Technical detail
- CVSS v4.0
- 8.7 · HIGH
- Vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- EPSS
- 0.00377 · 30.5th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
- Published
- 2026-04-10T03:10Z
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