Improper Privilege Management Affecting mbedtls2 package, versions <2.14.1-r0
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- published23 May 2024
- disclosed5 Dec 2018
Introduced: 5 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-19608 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.20 mbedtls2 to version 2.14.1-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mbedtls2 package and not the mbedtls2 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.
References
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/releases/mbedtls-2.14.1-2.7.8-and-2.1.17-released
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2018-03
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19608
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19608
- http://cat.eyalro.net/