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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| wolfSSL | wolfSSL (wolfCrypt) | 5.8.2 – < 5.9.0 | 5.9.0 |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 13 | wolfssl | No fix yet | — |
| Debian 12 | wolfssl | No fix yet | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | wolfssl | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | wolfssl | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 25.10 | wolfssl | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | wolfssl | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | wolfssl | No fix yet | — |
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | wolfssl | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | wolfssl | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | wolfssl | No fix yet | — |
Alpine
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine v3.24 | wolfssl | 5.9.0-r0 | — |
| Alpine v3.23 | wolfssl | 5.9.1-r0 | — |