# CVE-2026-5446: wolfSSL ARIA-GCM TLS 1.2/DTLS 1.2 GCM nonce reuse

- Severity: CVSS 6.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.9.1
- Published: 2026-04-09 · Updated: 2026-04-10

## Affected

- wolfSSL: from 5.2.1, fixed in 5.9.1

## Description

In wolfSSL, ARIA-GCM cipher suites used in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 reuse an identical 12-byte GCM nonce for every application-data record. Because wc_AriaEncrypt is stateless and passes the caller-supplied IV verbatim to the MagicCrypto SDK with no internal counter, and because the explicit IV is zero-initialized at session setup and never incremented in non-FIPS builds. This vulnerability affects wolfSSL builds configured with --enable-aria and the proprietary MagicCrypto SDK (a non-default, opt-in configuration required for Korean regulatory deployments). AES-GCM is not affected because wc_AesGcmEncrypt_ex maintains an internal invocation counter independently of the call-site guard.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wolfSSL, upgrade to a fixed version (5.9.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/10111

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