CVE-2026-5501

Name
CVE-2026-5501
Description
wolfSSL_X509_verify_cert in the OpenSSL compatibility layer accepts a certificate chain in which the leaf's signature is not checked, if the attacker supplies an untrusted intermediate with Basic Constraints `CA:FALSE` that is legitimately signed by a trusted root. An attacker who obtains any leaf certificate from a trusted CA (e.g. a free DV cert from Let's Encrypt) can forge a certificate for any subject name with any public key and arbitrary signature bytes, and the function returns `WOLFSSL_SUCCESS` / `X509_V_OK`. The native wolfSSL TLS handshake path (`ProcessPeerCerts`) is not susceptible and the issue is limited to applications using the OpenSSL compatibility API directly, which would include integrations of wolfSSL into nginx and haproxy.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
facts@wolfssl.com https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/10102

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:wolfssl:wolfssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* wolfssl >= None <= 5.9.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
wolfssl edge-community 5.9.1-r0 Pavlo Dembytskyi <me@devs.boo> fixed
wolfssl edge-community 5.9.0-r0 Pavlo Dembytskyi <me@devs.boo> possibly vulnerable
wolfssl edge-community 5.8.4-r2 Pavlo Dembytskyi <me@devs.boo> possibly vulnerable
wolfssl edge-community 5.8.4-r1 None possibly vulnerable
wolfssl edge-community 5.8.2-r1 None possibly vulnerable
wolfssl edge-community 5.8.2-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
wolfssl edge-community 5.7.6-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
wolfssl edge-community 5.7.4-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
wolfssl edge-community 5.7.2-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
wolfssl edge-community 5.7.0-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
wolfssl edge-community 5.6.6-r0 None possibly vulnerable
wolfssl edge-community 5.6.2-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
wolfssl edge-community 5.5.3-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
wolfssl edge-community 5.5.1-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
wolfssl edge-community 5.5.0-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
wolfssl edge-community 5.4.0-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
wolfssl 3.23-community 5.9.1-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> fixed
wolfssl 3.23-community 5.8.2-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable