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CVE-2014-2898
wolfSSL CyaSSL before 2.9.4 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via multiple calls to the CyaSSL_read function which…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
wolfSSL CyaSSL before 2.9.4 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via multiple calls to the CyaSSL_read function which triggers an out-of-bounds read when an error occurs, related to not checking the return code and MAC verification failure.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 14% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- http://www.wolfssl.com/yaSSL/Blog/Entries/2014/4/11_wolfSSL_Security_Advisory__April_9%2C_2014.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.wolfssl.com/yaSSL/Docs-cyassl-changelog.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/126 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/130 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-2921 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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