AES-GCM encryption/decryption with extremely large cumulative single message sizes (>64 GiB) were not properly rejected by the streaming APIs, allowing counter wrap, keystream reuse, and consequent plaintext recovery.
CVE-2026-55967
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-06-25. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(high)
- EPSS
- 1.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 25, 2026
Last Modified
June 26, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Jun 26, 2026wolfSSL Security Vulnerabilities | Documentation - wolfSSL
https://www.wolfssl.com/docs/security-vulnerabilities/20260616-aes-fixes
Fix merged in wolfSSL/wolfssl PR #10709 on 2026-06-17 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/10709Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-55967(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- CVE-2026-55967Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)Low
AES-GCM streaming APIs do not reject >64 GiB cumulative single messages, enabling counter wrap and keystream reuse
- GHSA-q4q5-jx42-4xp9GitHub Security AdvisoriesLow
AES-GCM encryption/decryption with extremely large cumulative single message sizes (>64 GiB) were...
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 38× in last 7d / 58× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-07 02:18 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-06 14:38 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-05 15:14 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-04 15:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 15:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-07-04 04:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 04:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-03 16:35 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-03 04:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-02 17:17 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-02 05:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 17:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 17:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 15:07 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 06:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 06:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 18:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-30 18:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-30 06:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-30 06:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-29 19:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-29 19:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-29 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-06-29 07:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-29 07:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-28 19:55 UTCEG score recompute▲ 5.50
- 2026-06-28 19:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-28 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-06-27 03:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-26 17:41 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7.5 · severity → HIGH
- 2026-06-25 19:50 UTCEG score recompute▲ 2.00
- 2026-06-25 19:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-25 19:49 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 2 · CVSS v4 → 2
- 2026-06-25 18:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-25 18:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
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