Search/CVE-2026-93302
● CVE — High

CVE-2026-93302

VendorwolfsslProductwolfsslDiscoveredSep 27, 2026UpdatedOct 2, 2026

MatchTrustedPeer ignores the public key used, leading to forged CA clones passing verification. Affected builds are any that enable the macro WOLFSSL_TRUST_PEER_CERT and load CA certificates with wolfSSL_CTX_trust_peer_cert() or wolfSSL_trust_peer_cert(). The peer must know the certificates being loaded to either of those APIs to take advantage of the issue. When OPENSSL_COMPATIBLE_DEFAULTS is also defined this widens the affected API to include all CA certificate loading. Both macros are defined when using autoconf builds such as (nginx, haproxy, stunnel, wpas, apache httpd, hitch, bind, rsyslog, ffmpeg, all, distro). When the certificate is listed as a trusted peer certificate the issue previously allowed for a malicious (D)TLS server to bypass authentication once knowing which CA’s the…

CVSS v3.1
8.2 HIGH
EPSS
0.20%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
2
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
seen in the same coverage
EPSS Trend
Sep 28, 2026 → Oct 4, 2026
▼ 0.16pp
0.36% → 0.20% over 3 tracked changes
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorNETWORK
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredNONE
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityLOW
IntegrityHIGH
AvailabilityNONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Connections
5 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Sep 27, 2026
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Oct 2, 2026
Sep 30, 2026
securityweek.com reports: High-Severity Vulnerabilities Patched in OpenSSL, WolfSSL
Oct 5, 2026
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