Out-of-bounds Read Affecting mbedtls package, versions [,2.24.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-MBEDTLS-10077643
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed19 Jul 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jul 2021

CVE-2020-36426  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mbedtls to version 2.24.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. mbedtls_x509_crl_parse_der has a buffer over-read (of one byte).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1