CVE-2026-3503Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator in INC Wolfssl

Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.50%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedMar 19

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.

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages5 packages

debiandebian/wolfssl< wolfssl 5.9.0-0.1 (forky)
CVEListV5wolfssl_inc/wolfssl5.8.25.9.0
Debianwolfssl/wolfssl< 5.9.0-0.1

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-pgc5-r6cv-2825: Protection mechanism failure in wolfCrypt post-quantum implementations (ML-KEM and ML-DSA) in wolfSSL on ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers allows a physic2026-03-19
OSV
CVE-2026-3503: Protection mechanism failure in wolfCrypt post-quantum implementations (ML-KEM and ML-DSA) in wolfSSL on ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers allows a physic2026-03-19

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Microsoft
Fault injection attack with ML-DSA and ML-KEM on ARM2026-03-10
Debian
CVE-2026-3503: wolfssl - Protection mechanism failure in wolfCrypt post-quantum implementations (ML-KEM a...2026

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2026-3503 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz
CVE-2026-3503 — Wolfssl INC Wolfssl vulnerability | cvebase