Description
A padding oracle exists in wolfSSL's PKCS7 CBC decryption that could allow an attacker to recover plaintext through repeated decryption queries with modified ciphertext. In previous versions of wolfSSL the interior padding bytes are not validated.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| wolfSSL | wolfSSL | ≤ 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 | 5.9.1-r0 | — |
| Alpine v3.23 | wolfssl | 5.9.1-r0 | — |