CVE-2026-3503
Fault injection attack with ML-DSA and ML-KEM on ARM
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.3 Medium
- Published
- Mar 19, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 19, 2026
- Reserved
- Mar 3, 2026
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 4.3 Medium | CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/U:Amber | wolfSSL |
Weaknesses
- CWE-335 Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
wolfSSL (wolfCrypt)wolfSSL Inc. |
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References
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