diff --git a/wolfcrypt/src/pwdbased.c b/wolfcrypt/src/pwdbased.c
index e5715fd5a..b2400a2a2 100644
--- a/wolfcrypt/src/pwdbased.c
+++ b/wolfcrypt/src/pwdbased.c
@@ -566,6 +566,11 @@ int wc_PKCS12_PBKDF_ex(byte* output, const byte* passwd, int passLen,
  */
 #define R(a, b) rotlFixed(a, b)
 
+/* (2^32 - 1) */
+#define SCRYPT_WORD32_MAX 4294967295U
+/* (2^32 - 1) * 32, used in a couple of scrypt max calculations. */
+#define SCRYPT_MAX 137438953440UL
+
 /* One round of Salsa20/8.
  * Code taken from RFC 7914: scrypt PBKDF.
  *
@@ -755,7 +760,12 @@ int wc_scrypt(byte* output, const byte* passwd, int passLen,
     if (cost < 1 || cost >= 128 * blockSize / 8 || parallel < 1 || dkLen < 1)
         return BAD_FUNC_ARG;
 
+    if ((word32)parallel > (SCRYPT_MAX / (128 * blockSize)))
+        return BAD_FUNC_ARG;
+
     bSz = 128 * blockSize;
+    if ((word32)parallel > (SCRYPT_WORD32_MAX / bSz))
+        return BAD_FUNC_ARG;
     blocksSz = bSz * parallel;
     blocks = (byte*)XMALLOC(blocksSz, NULL, DYNAMIC_TYPE_TMP_BUFFER);
     if (blocks == NULL) {
diff --git a/wolfcrypt/test/test.c b/wolfcrypt/test/test.c
index c73c68952..e953e8ef5 100644
--- a/wolfcrypt/test/test.c
+++ b/wolfcrypt/test/test.c
@@ -20179,6 +20179,12 @@ WOLFSSL_TEST_SUBROUTINE int scrypt_test(void)
     if (XMEMCMP(derived, verify2, sizeof(verify2)) != 0)
         return -9203;
 
+    /* Test case with parallel overflowing */
+    ret = wc_scrypt(derived, (byte*)"password", 16, (byte*)"NaCl", 16, 2, 4, 8388608,
+                    sizeof(verify2));
+    if (ret != BAD_FUNC_ARG)
+        return -9210;
+
     /* Don't run these test on embedded, since they use large mallocs */
 #if !defined(BENCH_EMBEDDED) && !defined(WOLFSSL_LINUXKM) && !defined(HAVE_INTEL_QA)
     ret = wc_scrypt(derived, (byte*)"pleaseletmein", 13,