UBUNTU-CVE-2026-94418

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-94418
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-94418.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-94418
Upstream
Published
2026-09-27T09:16:00Z
Modified
2026-09-30T21:39:33Z
Severity
  • 2.3 (Low) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

Under WOLFSSL_SMALL_CERT_VERIFY, ProcessPeerCertParse() runs the certificate signature check separately from the parse to keep peak memory down, then merges the two results, but it merged the signature result back only when the parse returned 0, so any parse error hid it. ParseCertRelative() reaches its validity-date, name-constraint and critical-extension checks only after ConfirmSignature() has passed, so splitting the signature check out inverts the precedence that makes "override date errors" a sound policy, and ASN_SIG_CONFIRM_E is never surfaced anywhere. The attacker needs no key material from the real PKI and no CA compromise: a self-made certificate carrying the expected subject name, the trusted CA's subject as its issuer, arbitrary bytes where the signature goes, a validity window in the past and the attacker's own key pair is sufficient. Affected builds define WOLFSSL_SMALL_CERT_VERIFY, which is off by default, is not set implicitly by any platform or preset header, and is not reachable from any CMake option; the autotools routes are --enable-lowresource, --enable-leantls, --enable-tinytls13=cert and --enable-tinytls13=mutualauth, and examples/configs/user_settings_embedded.h reaches it through WC_CFG_SMALL_CERT_VERIFY, which ships as 0, while neither --enable-all nor --enable-distro enables it at all. The application must additionally install a verify callback through wolfSSL_CTX_set_verify() or wolfSSL_set_verify() with WOLFSSL_VERIFY_PEER that returns 1 for ASN_BEFORE_DATE_E or ASN_AFTER_DATE_E; wolfSSL ships this exact shape as myVerify() in wolfssl/test.h under VERIFY_OVERRIDE_DATE_ERR, which examples/client -D selects. An application with no callback, or whose callback returns preverify for date errors, still fails the handshake, and wolfSSL_CertManagerVerifyBuffer() and wc_CheckCertSignature() report ASN_SIG_CONFIRM_E correctly in the same binary. TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 are affected in both directions, and DTLS reaches the same function; where the forged certificate is a chain certificate the callback's consent causes it to be cached in the WOLFSSL_CTX certificate manager, so an exposed deployment must restart the context or the process rather than merely reconnect.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
wolfssl

Package

Name
wolfssl
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.4.8+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "libcyassl5",
            "binary_version":  "3.4.8+dfsg-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "libwolfssl0",
            "binary_version":  "3.4.8+dfsg-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-94418.json"
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
wolfssl

Package

Name
wolfssl
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.10.2+dfsg-2
3.12.0+dfsg-1
3.12.2+dfsg-1
3.13.0+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "libwolfssl15",
            "binary_version":  "3.13.0+dfsg-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-94418.json"
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
wolfssl

Package

Name
wolfssl
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4.*
4.1.0+dfsg-2
4.2.0+dfsg-1
4.2.0+dfsg-2
4.2.0+dfsg-3
4.3.0+dfsg-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "libwolfssl24",
            "binary_version":  "4.3.0+dfsg-2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-94418.json"
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
wolfssl

Package

Name
wolfssl
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4.*
4.6.0-3
5.*
5.0.0-1
5.1.1-1
5.2.0-1
5.2.0-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "libwolfssl32",
            "binary_version":  "5.2.0-2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-94418.json"
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
wolfssl

Package

Name
wolfssl
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.5.4-2
5.5.4-2.1
5.6.4-2
5.6.6-1.2
5.6.6-1.3
5.6.6-1.3build1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "libwolfssl42t64",
            "binary_version":  "5.6.6-1.3build1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-94418.json"
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
wolfssl

Package

Name
wolfssl
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl?arch=source&distro=resolute

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.7.2-0.1
5.8.2-1.2
5.8.4-1
5.9.1-0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "libwolfssl44",
            "binary_version":  "5.9.1-0.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-94418.json"