wolfSSL CyaSSL before 2.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via (1) a request for the peer…

Description

wolfSSL CyaSSL before 2.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via (1) a request for the peer certificate when a certificate parsing failure occurs or (2) a client_key_exchange message when the ephemeral key is not found.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)Other CVEs with CWE-20

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• http://www.wolfssl.com/yaSSL/Blog/Entries/2014/4/11_wolfSSL_Security_Advisory__April_9%2C_2014.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.wolfssl.com/yaSSL/Docs-cyassl-changelog.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• GLSA-201612-53 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20140417 CVE ids for CyaSSL 2.9.4? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 66780 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20140418 Re: CVE ids for CyaSSL 2.9.4? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 57743 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 10:28 UTC.