CVE-2025-11933 (GCVE-0-2025-11933)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-21 22:19 – Updated: 2025-12-08 15:47
VLAI
Title
DoS Vulnerability in wolfSSL TLS 1.3 CKS Extension
Summary
Improper Input Validation in the TLS 1.3 CKS extension parsing in wolfSSL 5.8.2 and earlier on multiple platforms allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to potentially cause a denial-of-service via a crafted ClientHello message with duplicate CKS extensions.
Severity
2.3 (Low)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wofSSL wolfSSL Affected: 3.12.0 , < 5.8.4 (git)
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Credits
Jaehun Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) Kyungmin Bae, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
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