Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting wolfSSL/wolfssh package, versions [,5.9.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WOLFSSLWOLFSSH-17660726
  • published28 Jun 2026
  • disclosed25 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-6330  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-327  (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 of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm due to the ciphertext comparison process only evaluating half of the input on ARM64 NEON. An attacker can bypass cryptographic integrity checks by crafting manipulated ciphertexts that are not properly rejected.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1