CVE-2026-3503 (GCVE-0-2026-3503)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-19 18:12 – Updated: 2026-03-19 19:24
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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 ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/U:Amber
CWE
  • CWE-335 - Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wolfSSL Inc. wolfSSL (wolfCrypt) Affected: 5.8.2 , < 5.9.0 (semver)
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Credits
Hariprasad Kelassery Valsaraj of Temasek Laboratories
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