Improper Privilege Management Affecting mbedtls package, versions <2.14.1-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE320-MBEDTLS-7010191
  • published23 May 2024
  • disclosed5 Dec 2018

Introduced: 5 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-19608  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 mbedtls to version 2.14.1-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mbedtls package and not the mbedtls package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

Arm Mbed TLS before 2.14.1, before 2.7.8, and before 2.1.17 allows a local unprivileged attacker to recover the plaintext of RSA decryption, which is used in RSA-without-(EC)DH(E) cipher suites.