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CVE-2022-39173

In wolfSSL before 5.5.1, malicious clients can cause a buffer overflow during a TLS 1.3 handshake.

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  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

In wolfSSL before 5.5.1, malicious clients can cause a buffer overflow during a TLS 1.3 handshake. This occurs when an attacker supposedly resumes a previous TLS session. During the resumption Client Hello a Hello Retry Request must be triggered. Both Client Hellos are required to contain a list of duplicate cipher suites to trigger the buffer overflow. In total, two Client Hellos have to be sent: one in the resumed session, and a second one as a response to a Hello Retry Request message.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 5

wolfssl.com

GitHub · wolfSSL/wolfssl

seclists.org

packetstormsecurity.com

blog.trailofbits.com