Protection mechanism failure in wolfCrypt post-quantum implementations (ML-KEM and ML-DSA) in wolfSSL on ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers allows a physical attacker to compromise key material and/or cryptographic outcomes via induced transient faults that corrupt or redirect seed/pointer values during Keccak-based expansion.




This issue affects wolfSSL (wolfCrypt): commit hash d86575c766e6e67ef93545fa69c04d6eb49400c6.

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Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description Protection mechanism failure in wolfCrypt post-quantum implementations (ML-KEM and ML-DSA) in wolfSSL on ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers allows a physical attacker to compromise key material and/or cryptographic outcomes via induced transient faults that corrupt or redirect seed/pointer values during Keccak-based expansion. This issue affects wolfSSL (wolfCrypt): commit hash d86575c766e6e67ef93545fa69c04d6eb49400c6.
Title Fault injection attack with ML-DSA and ML-KEM on ARM
Weaknesses CWE-335
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Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/U:Amber'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wolfSSL

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-19T19:24:36.198Z

Reserved: 2026-03-03T22:56:47.976Z

Link: CVE-2026-3503

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-03-19T19:24:32.321Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-19T19:16:20.570

Modified: 2026-03-19T19:16:20.570

Link: CVE-2026-3503

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