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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.6 High

CVE-2026-5479

wolfSSL EVP ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD authentication tag

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

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

wolfSSL wolfSSL

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 5.9.1affected

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