NVD / CVE Program· CNA wolfSSL

CVE-2026-93302: Trusted peer certificate match ignores public key, allowing forged CA clones

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 33/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.23% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
No fixed version is recorded, but the references include a patch (commit or PR) link.

Low priority for now. See the fix and affected versions sections below.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

MatchTrustedPeer ignores the public key used, leading to forged CA clones passing verification. Affected builds are any that enable the macro WOLFSSL_TRUST_PEER_CERT and load CA certificates with wolfSSL_CTX_trust_peer_cert() or wolfSSL_trust_peer_cert(). The peer must know the certificates being loaded to either of those APIs to take advantage of the issue. When OPENSSL_COMPATIBLE_DEFAULTS is also defined this widens the affected API to include all CA certificate loading. Both macros are defined when using autoconf builds such as (nginx, haproxy, stunnel, wpas, apache httpd, hitch, bind, rsyslog, ffmpeg, all, distro). When the certificate is listed as a trusted peer certificate the issue previously allowed for a malicious (D)TLS server to bypass authentication once knowing which CA’s the client would accept. This also affects mutual authentication cases where the client knows which CA’s the server has loaded. If building with any of these configurations and using (D)TLS where the loaded CA’s could be known and authentication of the peer is desired, users should either: update to the latest wolfSSL version, apply the fix patch, or use the configure flag --disable-openssl-compatible-defaults and not load CA’s with wolfSSL_CTX_trust_peer_cert() or wolfSSL_trust_peer_cert() to mitigate the issue.

HighCVSS 8.3 · v4.0—No exploit No fix recorded

EUVD-2026-87910

Published: Sep 27, 2026
Updated: Oct 2, 2026
EPSS: 0.2% · 14th percentile
CWE: CWE-295

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 33 / 40 · 8.3 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · wolfSSL: 8.3; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
wolfssl	wolfssl	cpe:2.3:a:wolfssl:wolfssl

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Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

wolfssl wolfssl5.3.0 and later · up to 5.9.2 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (wolfSSL). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

wolfSSL wolfSSL
- 5.3.0 and later · up to and including 5.9.2affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Debian:12	wolfssl	from 0	—

Same product

wolfssl: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2026-89135Sep 27, 2026 · Failed X509_verify_cert leaves unverified CA in shared CertManager
25Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2026-89136Sep 27, 2026 · Client accepts unsolicited RawPublicKey server certificate type
33Monitor
Later →CVE-2026-93304Sep 27, 2026 · (D)TLS 1.2 client accepts early ChangeCipherSpec before ClientKeyExchange
25Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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wolfSSL/wolfsslcommit 22bcd51

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2026-5194171 days apartwolfSSL ECDSA Certificate Verification
37Monitor
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36Monitor
CVE-2026-1131094 days apartX.509 trust-chain bypass in wolfSSL_X509_verify_cert() via untrusted intermediate anchoring
34Monitor
CVE-2026-5501170 days apartImproper Certificate Signature Verification in X.509 Chain Validation Allows Forged Leaf Certificates
34Monitor
CVE-2026-891020 days apartOCSP stapling v2 multi accepts non-CA chain certificates as issuers
33Monitor
CVE-2026-1199994 days apartX.509 trust-chain bypass via path-depth exhaustion in wolfSSL_X509_verify_cert()
32Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

CVE-2026-5507171 days apartSession Cache Restore — Arbitrary Free via Deserialized Pointer
16Monitor

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/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

nvd-secondary

Root cause

A certificate validation error is silently swallowed instead of terminating the connection. Often, code added for a test environment makes its way into production.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-295 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

kotlin

1override fun checkServerTrusted(chain: Array<X509Certificate>, type: String) {
2  // Left empty for the test environment
3}

Fixed

kotlin

1val client = OkHttpClient.Builder()
2  .certificatePinner(
3    CertificatePinner.Builder()
4      .add("api.sirius.example", "sha256/…")
5      .build()
6  ).build()

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

SSVC exploitation— → noneSep 29, 2026, 6:54 PM UTC

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References

github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/commit/22bcd51d553eaac1de37bee91fdac80cc47961e1

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