CVE-2026-0819

Stack buffer overflow in PKCS7 SignedData encoding with custom signed attributes

State
Published
Severity
2.2 Low
Published
Mar 19, 2026
Updated
Mar 19, 2026
Reserved
Jan 9, 2026

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Description

A stack buffer overflow vulnerability exists in wolfSSL's PKCS7 SignedData encoding functionality. In wc_PKCS7_BuildSignedAttributes(), when adding custom signed attributes, the code passes an incorrect capacity value (esd->signedAttribsCount) to EncodeAttributes() instead of the remaining available space in the fixed-size signedAttribs[7] array. When an application sets pkcs7->signedAttribsSz to a value greater than MAX_SIGNED_ATTRIBS_SZ (default 7) minus the number of default attributes already added, EncodeAttributes() writes beyond the array bounds, causing stack memory corruption. In WOLFSSL_SMALL_STACK builds, this becomes heap corruption. Exploitation requires an application that allows untrusted input to control the signedAttribs array size when calling wc_PKCS7_EncodeSignedData() or related signing functions.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.02.2 LowCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:UwolfSSL

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
wolfSSLwolfSSL
  • 5.5.0 to before 5.9.0Affected

References

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