CVE-2020-36177
CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: January 6, 2021 at 03:54 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:14 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorwolfSSL
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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
Description
RsaPad_PSS in wolfcrypt/src/rsa.c in wolfSSL before 4.6.0 has an out-of-bounds write for certain relationships between key size and digest size.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (5)
x_refsource_MISCExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=26567x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/commit/63bf5dc56ccbfc12a73b06327361687091a4c6f7x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/commit/fb2288c46dd4c864b78f00a47a364b96a09a5c0fx_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/3426x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/releases/tag/v4.6.0-stableCVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787
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