Certificate Validation Vulnerability in wolfSSL TLS 1.3 Client Authentication

CVE-2022-25638

Summary

A certificate validation bypass vulnerability exists in wolfSSL versions prior to 5.2.0, allowing a TLS 1.3 client to potentially evade authentication checks when connecting to a TLS 1.3 server. This issue arises when there is a discrepancy in the sig_algo field between the certificate_verify message and the certificate message, posing a security risk to systems utilizing affected wolfSSL versions.

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