CVE-2026-5263

medium

Published 2026-04-09 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

7.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

VIR risk

6.5

Description

URI nameConstraints from constrained intermediate CAs are parsed but not enforced during certificate chain verification in wolfcrypt/src/asn.c. A compromised or malicious sub-CA could issue leaf certificates with URI SAN entries that violate the nameConstraints of the issuing CA, and wolfSSL would accept them as valid.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Mixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Affected	—
sid	Fixed	`5.9.1-0.1`
forky	Fixed	`5.9.1-0.1`
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
wolfssl	wolfssl	`{"endExcluding":"5.9.1"}`	`5.9.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-295

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.