Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) Affecting wolfssl package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-WOLFSSL-15762305
  • published24 Mar 2026
  • disclosed19 Mar 2026
  • creditHariprasad Kelassery Valsaraj

Introduced: 19 Mar 2026

NewCVE-2026-3503  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-335  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) via induced transient faults in the Keccak-based expansion process. An attacker can compromise key material and cryptographic outcomes by physically manipulating seed or pointer values during cryptographic operations on ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1