Fault Injection Affecting wolfssl package, versions [,5.7.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-WOLFSSL-10078516
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed29 Aug 2024
  • creditJunkai Liang, Zhi Zhang, Xin Zhang, Qingni Shen

Introduced: 29 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-1545  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1256  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wolfssl to version 5.7.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Fault Injection through the RsaPrivateDecryption function. An attacker can disclose sensitive information and escalate privileges by exploiting the Rowhammer fault injection technique to manipulate the RsaKey structure.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1