Fault injection attack with ML-DSA and ML-KEM on ARM

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-3503
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerwolfSSL
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-03-19 19:16:20 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 17:28:53 UTC
DescriptionProtection mechanism failure in wolfCrypt post-quantum implementations (ML-KEM and ML-DSA) in wolfSSL on ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers allows a physical attacker to compromise key material and/or cryptographic outcomes via induced transient faults that corrupt or redirect seed/pointer values during Keccak-based expansion. This issue affects wolfSSL (wolfCrypt): commit hash d86575c766e6e67ef93545fa69c04d6eb49400c6.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v4.0 4.3 MEDIUM from [email protected]

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

EPSS: 0.000080000 probability, percentile 0.006920000 (date 2026-05-05)

Problem Types: CWE-335 | CWE-335 CWE-335 Incorrect Usage of Seeds in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
4.0[email protected]Secondary4.3MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/C...
4.0CNACVSS4.3MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/U:Amber
3.1[email protected]Primary5.2MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4.0 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Physical
Attack Complexity
High
Attack Requirements
Present
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Sub Conf.
Low
Sub Integrity
Low
Sub Availability
None

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

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Physical
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wolfssl Wolfssl All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA WolfSSL Inc. WolfSSL WolfCrypt affected 5.8.2 5.9.0 semver ARM

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/9734 [email protected] github.com Issue Tracking, Patch
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Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: Hariprasad Kelassery Valsaraj of Temasek Laboratories (en)

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