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CVE-2026-5479: wolfSSL EVP ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD authentication tag
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-354
Description
In wolfSSL's EVP layer, the ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD decryption path in wolfSSL_EVP_CipherFinal (and related EVP cipher finalization functions) fails to verify the authentication tag before returning plaintext to the caller. When an application uses the EVP API to perform ChaCha20-Poly1305 decryption, the implementation computes or accepts the tag but does not compare it against the expected value.
Affected products
- wolfSSL: before 5.9.1 — fixed in 5.9.1
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: wolfSSL 5.9.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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