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TI-2026-03018 Aliases CVE-2026-3503GHSA-pgc5-r6cv-2825

Fault injection attack with ML-DSA and ML-KEM on ARM

Priority LOW 19CWE-335Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Physical
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Attack requirements
Present
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · Low · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00162 5th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed wolfSSL (wolfCrypt) (wolfSSL Inc.): 5.9.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
wolfSSLwolfSSL (wolfCrypt)5.8.2 to before 5.9.05.9.0Patch availableCNA
  • wolfSSL (wolfCrypt) VendorwolfSSL Affected 5.8.2 to before 5.9.0 Fixed in 5.9.0 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:wolfssl:wolfssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*5.8.2 to before 5.9.0VulnerablewolfSSL
  • cpe:2.3:a:wolfssl:wolfssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 5.8.2 to before 5.9.0 Vulnerable ·wolfSSL

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA wolfSSL (wolfCrypt) (wolfSSL Inc.) Fixed in 5.9.0

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-3503
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pgc5-r6cv-2825

References

  • TI-2024-00830 SEGV and out of bounds memory read from malicious packet CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2022-18557 In wolfSSL before 5.5.1, malicious clients can cause a buffer overflow during a TLS 1.3… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2025-10943 Potential DoS Vulnerability through Multiple KeyShareEntry with Same Group in TLS 1.3 ClientHello CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.3
  • TI-2017-09737 wolfSSL Bleichenbacher/ROBOT CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2019-08902 wolfSSL 4.0.0 has a Buffer Overflow in DoPreSharedKeys in tls13.c when a current identity… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2017-02021 Improper certificate validation in wolfSSL CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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