K000162842: wolfSSL vulnerability CVE-2026-55961

Security Advisory Description wolfSSLPKCS7verify returning success for a degenerate certs-only PKCS7 object that contains no signer. Such an object has empty signerInfos, so the underlying signed-data verification succeeds without authenticating any content. The compatibility-layer verify path no...

JLSEC-2026-736 `wolfSSL_PKCS7_verify()` returning success for a degenerate (certs-only) PKCS#7 object that contains...

wolfSSLPKCS7verify returning success for a degenerate certs-only PKCS7 object that contains no signer. Such an object has empty signerInfos, so the underlying signed-data verification succeeds without authenticating any content. The compatibility-layer verify path now rejects the object when no...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-55961

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - wolfSSLPKCS7verify returning success for a degenerate certs-only PKCS7 object that contains no signer. Such an object has empty signerInfos, so the underlying...

CVE-2026-55961

wolfSSLPKCS7verify returning success for a degenerate certs-only PKCS7 object that contains no signer. Such an object has empty signerInfos, so the underlying signed-data verification succeeds without authenticating any content. The compatibility-layer verify path now rejects the object when no...

CVE-2026-55961

wolfSSLPKCS7verify returning success for a degenerate certs-only PKCS7 object that contains no signer. Such an object has empty signerInfos, so the underlying signed-data verification succeeds without authenticating any content. The compatibility-layer verify path now rejects the object when no...

CVE-2026-55961

The CVE describes a flaw in wolfSSL where wolfSSL_PKCS7_verify() incorrectly reported success for a degenerate PKCS#7 object that contains no signer. In such objects, signerInfos is empty, so underlying signed-data verification could succeed without authenticating any content. The fix enforces th...

CVE-2026-55961 wolfSSL_PKCS7_verify() reports success for degenerate (certs-only) PKCS#7 with no signer

wolfSSLPKCS7verify returning success for a degenerate certs-only PKCS7 object that contains no signer. Such an object has empty signerInfos, so the underlying signed-data verification succeeds without authenticating any content. The compatibility-layer verify path now rejects the object when no...

CVE-2026-55961

wolfSSLPKCS7verify returning success for a degenerate certs-only PKCS7 object that contains no signer. Such an object has empty signerInfos, so the underlying signed-data verification succeeds without authenticating any content. The compatibility-layer verify path now rejects the object when no...

CVE-2026-55961

wolfSSLPKCS7verify returning success for a degenerate certs-only PKCS7 object that contains no signer. Such an object has empty signerInfos, so the underlying signed-data verification succeeds without authenticating any content. The compatibility-layer verify path now rejects the object when no...

EUVD-2026-39491

wolfSSLPKCS7verify returning success for a degenerate certs-only PKCS7 object that contains no signer. Such an object has empty signerInfos, so the underlying signed-data verification succeeds without authenticating any content. The compatibility-layer verify path now rejects the object when no...

CVE-2026-55961 wolfSSL_PKCS7_verify() reports success for degenerate (certs-only) PKCS#7 with no signer

wolfSSLPKCS7verify returning success for a degenerate certs-only PKCS7 object that contains no signer. Such an object has empty signerInfos, so the underlying signed-data verification succeeds without authenticating any content. The compatibility-layer verify path now rejects the object when no...

CVE-2026-55961 wolfSSL_PKCS7_verify() reports success for degenerate (certs-only) PKCS#7 with no signer

wolfSSLPKCS7verify returning success for a degenerate certs-only PKCS7 object that contains no signer. Such an object has empty signerInfos, so the underlying signed-data verification succeeds without authenticating any content. The compatibility-layer verify path now rejects the object when no...

PT-2026-52526

wolfSSL PKCS7 verify returning success for a degenerate certs-only PKCS7 object that contains no signer. Such an object has empty signerInfos, so the underlying signed-data verification succeeds without authenticating any content. The compatibility-layer verify path now rejects the object when no...