CVE-2026-6291

Bleichenbacher padding oracle in PKCS#7 KTRI RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 decryption

State
Published
Severity
6.0 Medium
Published
Jun 25, 2026
Updated
Jun 25, 2026
Reserved
Apr 14, 2026

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Description

Bleichenbacher padding oracle in PKCS#7 KTRI decryption. When decrypting PKCS#7 EnvelopedData using RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 key transport, wolfSSL returned distinguishable error codes depending on whether RSA padding validation failed versus whether the decrypted content was malformed. An attacker able to submit crafted EnvelopedData messages and observe error responses could use this as a padding oracle to incrementally recover the encrypted Content Encryption Key (CEK). The fix generates a deterministic pseudo-random fake CEK on padding failure (via HMAC-SHA256) and proceeds with decryption identically, using constant-time operations throughout, so that all failure paths produce the same error regardless of padding validity.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-208 Observable Timing Discrepancy

Affected Products

ProductVersions
wolfSSLwolfSSL
  • 3.9.10 through 5.9.1Affected

References

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