CVE-2026-44518: liboqs: XMSS Buffer Overread Bug
open-quantum-safe · liboqs
Affected: open-quantum-safe liboqs · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 23% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
liboqs is a C-language cryptographic library that provides implementations of post-quantum cryptography algorithms. Prior to 0.16.0, an out-of-bounds read has been identified in the XMSS and XMSS^MT stateful signature verification code. When the verification function is called with a signature buffer shorter than the expected signature size for the given parameter set, the implementation does not validate the caller-supplied length and proceeds to read past the end of the buffer. The out-of-bounds bytes are consumed only as input to an internal hash computation and are not returned to the caller, so no oracle exists to leak their contents to an attacker. The primary observable effect is a possible crash (denial of service) of the verifying process if the read crosses into an unmapped memory page. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.16.0.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- open-quantum-safe · liboqs< 0.16.0
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- open-quantum-safe
- Published
- May 2026
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