CVE-2021-38597: wolfSSL before 4.8.1 incorrectly skips OCSP verification in certain situations of irrelevant response data that contains the NoCheck extension.

PriorityP427medium5.9CVSS 3.1

AVNACHPRNUINSUCHINAN

EPSS

0.48%

38.5th percentile

wolfSSL before 4.8.1 incorrectly skips OCSP verification in certain situations of irrelevant response data that contains the NoCheck extension.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	wolfssl	< wolfssl 5.0.0-1 (bookworm)	wolfssl 5.0.0-1 (bookworm)
wolfssl	wolfssl	< 4.8.1	4.8.1
wolfssl	wolfssl	>= 0 < 4.6.0+p1-0+deb11u1	4.6.0+p1-0+deb11u1
wolfssl	wolfssl	>= 0 < 5.0.0-1	5.0.0-1
wolfssl	wolfssl	>= 0 < 5.0.0-1	5.0.0-1
wolfssl	wolfssl	>= 0 < 5.0.0-1	5.0.0-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.9MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

osv5.9MEDIUM

vendor_debian5.9MEDIUM

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