CVE-2026-5479

Name	CVE-2026-5479
Description	In wolfSSL's EVP layer, the ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD decryption path in wolfSSL_EVP_CipherFinal (and related EVP cipher finalization functions) fails to verify the authentication tag before returning plaintext to the caller. When an application uses the EVP API to perform ChaCha20-Poly1305 decryption, the implementation computes or accepts the tag but does not compare it against the expected value.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	1133835

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
wolfssl (PTS)	bullseye	4.6.0+p1-0+deb11u2	vulnerable
	bookworm	5.5.4-2+deb12u2	vulnerable
	trixie	5.7.2-0.1+deb13u1	vulnerable
	forky, sid	5.9.1-0.1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
wolfssl	source	(unstable)	5.9.1-0.1			1133835

Notes

[trixie] - wolfssl <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - wolfssl <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - wolfssl <postponed> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/10102
Fixed by (merge): https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/commit/32502e9963a1db43fa42bd1e6edaa27fd8168ad9 (v5.9.1-stable)