Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-6681 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-6681 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-6681?
- Informational severity, with a CVSS score of 1, published 25 June 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Wolfssl 3.10.0 to 5.9.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-6681?
- A patch was published on 2026-04-07: Fix merged into master branch via PR 10116 Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-6681 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network or from the adjacent network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-6681?
- Check whether you run Wolfssl at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in wolfSSL's PKCS#7 decoding implementation (CWE-787, CWE-120). The root cause is that the decoding path fails to validate the decoded content length against the caller-supplied 'outputSz' buffer size parameter. An attacker providing a crafted PKCS#7 message could cause the library to write decoded data past the end of the allocated buffer. This affects wolfSSL versions 5.9.0 and earlier; the issue was addressed in version 5.9.1.
Affected products
- wolfSSL wolfSSL 3.10.0 to 5.9.0
Timeline
- 2026-06-25: disclosed: CVE published to NVD
- 2026-04-07: patched: Fix merged into master branch via PR 10116