CVE-2026-5477

Prefix-substitution forgery via integer overflow in wolfCrypt CMAC

State
Published
Severity
8.2 High
Published
Apr 10, 2026
Updated
Apr 10, 2026
Reserved
Apr 3, 2026

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Description

An integer overflow existed in the wolfCrypt CMAC implementation, that could be exploited to forge CMAC tags. The function wc_CmacUpdate used the guard `if (cmac->totalSz != 0)` to skip XOR-chaining on the first block (where digest is all-zeros and the XOR is a no-op). However, totalSz is word32 and wraps to zero after 2^28 block flushes (4 GiB), causing the guard to erroneously discard the live CBC-MAC chain state. Any two messages sharing a common suffix beyond the 4 GiB mark then produce identical CMAC tags, enabling a zero-work prefix-substitution forgery. The fix removes the guard, making the XOR unconditional; the no-op property on the first block is preserved because digest is zero-initialized by wc_InitCmac_ex.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.2 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NwolfSSL

Weaknesses

  • CWE-190 Integer overflow or wraparound

Affected Products

ProductVersions
wolfSSLwolfSSL
  • 5.9.0 and earlierAffected

References

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