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 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 v3 5.2 MEDIUM

5.2^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 0.9 / Impact : 4.2

Attack Vector PHYSICAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/9734	Issue Tracking Patch

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:wolfssl:wolfssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-03-19 19:16

Updated : 2026-06-17 10:43

NVD link : CVE-2026-3503

Mitre link : CVE-2026-3503

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-3503

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Products Affected

wolfssl

wolfssl

CWE

CWE-335

Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

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