CVE-2026-6681 (GCVE-0-2026-6681)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-06-25 20:11
Modified
2026-06-26 13:14
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
The PKCS#7 decode path ignores the caller-supplied output buffer size (outputSz), allowing decoded content to be written past the bounds of the provided buffer. This affects wolfSSL 5.9.0 and earlier and was fixed in the 5.9.1 release.
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