Covert Timing Channel Affecting mbedtls package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-MBEDTLS-15924845
  • published7 Apr 2026
  • disclosed1 Apr 2026
  • creditJing Liu, Zhiyuan Zhang, Lucía Martínez Gavier, Gilles Barthe, Marcel Böhme

Introduced: 1 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2025-66442  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-385  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for mbedtls.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Covert Timing Channel via timing differences in RSA and CBC/ECB decryption operations when the LLVM compiler's select-optimize feature is enabled. An attacker can infer sensitive information, such as cryptographic keys, by analyzing the timing of cryptographic operations.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1