CVE-2026-5460

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 73/100
Published: 2026-04-10 Modified: 2026-11-11 First seen: 2026-11-11 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: X
AT: Present
VC: None
VI: Low
VA: Low

Description

A heap use-after-free exists in wolfSSL's TLS 1.3 post-quantum cryptography (PQC) hybrid KeyShare processing. In the error handling path of TLSX_KeyShare_ProcessPqcHybridClient() in src/tls.c, the inner function TLSX_KeyShare_ProcessPqcClient_ex() frees a KyberKey object upon encountering an error. The caller then invokes TLSX_KeyShare_FreeAll(), which attempts to call ForceZero() on the already-freed KyberKey, resulting in writes of zero bytes over freed heap memory.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
wolfssl wolfssl < 5.9.1

References & Advisories (1)

Bug Bounty Relevance

73 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

6.3 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.22%
Raw Score 0.002200
Percentile 12.7%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00220
2026-11-13
0.00220
2026-11-12
0.00220
2026-11-10
0.00220

Intelligence Sources

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