CVE-2014-2896 describes a critical memory corruption or out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the DoAlert function of wolfSSL CyaSSL versions prior to 2.9.4, affecting its TLS and DTLS implementations. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without user interaction, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness. It is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog and is considered inactive on the Hot List.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 2.5.0, < 2.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wolfssl:wolfssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.