In wolfSSL before 5.5.1, malicious clients can cause a buffer overflow during a TLS 1.3 handshake. This occurs when an attacker supposedly resumes a previous TLS session. During the resumption Client Hello a Hello Retry Request must be triggered. Both Client Hellos are required to contain a list of duplicate cipher suites to trigger the buffer overflow. In total, two Client Hellos have to be sent: one in the resumed session, and a second one as a response to a Hello Retry Request message.
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"sources": [
{
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2022-39173",
"published": "2022-09-29T01:15:11.373Z",
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39173",
"modified": "2026-06-17T04:57:51.080Z",
"imported": "2026-07-14T21:22:48.570Z",
"id": "CVE-2022-39173",
"database_specific": {
"status": "Modified"
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