CVE-2025-11931 Affecting wolfssl package, versions <5.8.4-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE324-WOLFSSL-17304447
  • published11 Jun 2026
  • disclosed21 Nov 2025

Introduced: 21 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-11931  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.24 wolfssl to version 5.8.4-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wolfssl package and not the wolfssl package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.24 relevant fixed versions and status.

Integer Underflow Leads to Out-of-Bounds Access in XChaCha20-Poly1305 Decrypt. This issue is hit specifically with a call to the function wc_XChaCha20Poly1305_Decrypt() which is not used with TLS connections, only from direct calls from an application.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1