CVE-2026-3503 (GCVE-0-2026-3503)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-19 18:12 – Updated: 2026-03-19 19:24
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Fault injection attack with ML-DSA and ML-KEM on ARM
Summary
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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-03-19 19:24 UTC
CWE
- CWE-335 - Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/9734 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wolfSSL Inc. | wolfSSL (wolfCrypt) |
Affected:
5.8.2 , < 5.9.0
(semver)
|
guessed |
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