Use After Free Affecting wolfSSL/wolfssh package, versions [,5.9.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WOLFSSLWOLFSSH-17660710
  • published28 Jun 2026
  • disclosed25 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-7531  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wolfSSL/wolfssh to version 5.9.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the error cleanup process when handling a truncated PQC hybrid KeyShare sent by a malicious TLS 1.3 server. An attacker can cause the application to operate on freed memory by sending a specially crafted truncated PQC hybrid KeyShare during the TLS handshake.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1