Use of a Cryptographic Primitive with a Risky Implementation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mbedtls  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-MBEDTLS-10077638
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed24 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-8627  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1240  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Cryptographic Primitive with a Risky Implementation. PolarSSL 1.3.8 does not properly negotiate the signature algorithm to use, which allows remote attackers to conduct downgrade attacks via unspecified vectors.

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