DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55964
Chain intermediate CA:TRUE without keyCertSign accepted as a signing CA. Intermediate CA certificates are required to have the keyCertSign key usage when a Key Usage extension is present, but chain-supplied temporary CAs (WOLFSSL_TEMP_CA) added while building a certificate path were previously exempted from this check, so an intermediate asserting CA:TRUE but lacking keyCertSign was accepted as a signing CA. The check now applies to chain-supplied temporary CAs as well; only operator-loaded root certificates (WOLFSSL_USER_CA) and self-signed roots remain exempt. Per RFC 5280 an absent Key Usage extension implies all usages, so the requirement is enforced only when the extension is actually present (extKeyUsageSet). Affects the OpenSSL-compatibility certificate-path-building path (X509_verify_cert / X509_STORE, OPENSSL_EXTRA/OPENSSL_ALL), where untrusted chain intermediates are added as temporary CAs; native (non-OpenSSL-compat) certificate verification does not create temporary CAs and is unaffected. Within those builds, the check applies unless ALLOW_INVALID_CERTSIGN is defined.
DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55964
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55964
wolfssl
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- 5.5.4-2
Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.5.4-2+deb12u1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.5.4-2+deb12u2Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.5.4-2+deb12u3Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.5.4-2.1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.6.4-1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.6.4-2Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.6.6-1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.6.6-1.1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.6.6-1.2Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.6.6-1.3Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.6.6-1.3~exp1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.7.0-0.1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.7.0-0.2Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.7.0-0.3Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.7.2-0.1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.7.2-0.2Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.7.2-0.3Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.7.2-0.4Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.8.2-1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.8.2-1.1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.8.2-1.2Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.8.4-1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.9.0-0.1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.9.0-0.2Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.9.1-0.1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions5.9.2-1Source reference:
/affected/0/versions - Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
wolfssl
Source reference: /affected/1/package/name
- Affected versions
- 5.7.2-0.1
Source reference:
/affected/1/versions5.7.2-0.1+deb13u1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions5.7.2-0.1+deb13u2Source reference:
/affected/1/versions5.7.2-0.2Source reference:
/affected/1/versions5.7.2-0.3Source reference:
/affected/1/versions5.7.2-0.4Source reference:
/affected/1/versions5.8.2-1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions5.8.2-1.1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions5.8.2-1.2Source reference:
/affected/1/versions5.8.4-1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions5.9.0-0.1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions5.9.0-0.2Source reference:
/affected/1/versions5.9.1-0.1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions5.9.2-1Source reference:
/affected/1/versions - Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
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}
}
]Publisher severity
No explicit severity was provided.
- Event
- #57868 · Revision 1
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- Publisher date