CVE-2026-5295 PUBLISHED

Stack Buffer Overflow in wolfSSL PKCS7 wc_PKCS7_DecryptOri() via Oversized OID

Assigner: wolfSSL
Reserved: 31.03.2026 Published: 09.04.2026 Updated: 09.04.2026

A stack buffer overflow exists in wolfSSL's PKCS7 implementation in the wc_PKCS7_DecryptOri() function in wolfcrypt/src/pkcs7.c. When processing a CMS EnvelopedData message containing an OtherRecipientInfo (ORI) recipient, the function copies an ASN.1-parsed OID into a fixed 32-byte stack buffer (oriOID[MAX_OID_SZ]) via XMEMCPY without first validating that the parsed OID length does not exceed MAX_OID_SZ. A crafted CMS EnvelopedData message with an ORI recipient containing an OID longer than 32 bytes triggers a stack buffer overflow. Exploitation requires the library to be built with --enable-pkcs7 (disabled by default) and the application to have registered an ORI decrypt callback via wc_PKCS7_SetOriDecryptCb().

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 5.9

Product Status

Vendor wolfSSL
Product wolfSSL
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 5.9.1 (excl.)

Credits

  • Sunwoo Lee, (Korea Institute of Energy Technology, KENTECH) finder
  • Woohyun Choi, (Korea Institute of Energy Technology, KENTECH) finder
  • Seunghyun Yoon, (Korea Institute of Energy Technology, KENTECH) finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow CWE