CVE-2026-5479
wolfSSL vulnerability analysis and mitigation

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.


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CVE-2026-5500HIGH8.7
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  • wolfssl
NoNoApr 10, 2026
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