Critical severity · published Apr 9, 2026
CVE-2026-5194
wolfSSL ECDSA Certificate Verification
9.1
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Missing hash/digest size and OID checks allow digests smaller than allowed when verifying ECDSA certificates, or smaller than is appropriate for the relevant key type, to be accepted by signature verification functions. This could lead to reduced security of ECDSA certificate-based authentication if the public CA key used is also known. This affects ECDSA/ECC verification when EdDSA or ML-DSA is also enabled.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 47% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
WO
wolfSSL · wolfSSL
3.12.0 before 5.9.1 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5194
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5194
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/10131
www.anthropic.com
https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update
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