CVE-2026-5446 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-5446: wolfSSL ARIA-GCM TLS 1.2/DTLS 1.2 GCM nonce reuse

Vendor Wolfssl
Product wolfSSL
Weakness CWE-323
Published April 9, 2026
Last update April 10, 2026

CVSS base score

6.0/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

In wolfSSL, ARIA-GCM cipher suites used in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 reuse an identical 12-byte GCM nonce for every application-data record. Because wc_AriaEncrypt is stateless and passes the caller-supplied IV verbatim to the MagicCrypto SDK with no internal counter, and because the explicit IV is zero-initialized at session setup and never incremented in non-FIPS builds. This vulnerability affects wolfSSL builds configured with --enable-aria and the proprietary MagicCrypto SDK (a non-default, opt-in configuration required for Korean regulatory deployments). AES-GCM is not affected because wc_AesGcmEncrypt_ex maintains an internal invocation counter independently of the call-site guard.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 9, 2026 CVE published
April 10, 2026 Record updated