CVE-2026-0819 (GCVE-0-2026-0819)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-19 16:54 – Updated: 2026-03-19 17:19
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Title
Stack buffer overflow in PKCS7 SignedData encoding with custom signed attributes
Summary
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.
Severity ?
2.2 (Low)
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
CWE
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Vendor Product Version
wolfSSL wolfSSL Affected: 5.5.0 , < 5.9.0 (semver)
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Maor Caplan
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