Out-of-bounds Read Affecting mbedtls package, versions [3.1.0,3.6.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-MBEDTLS-15929023
  • published8 Apr 2026
  • disclosed2 Apr 2026
  • creditEva Crystal

Introduced: 2 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-34876  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mbedtls to version 3.6.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read in the mbedtls_ccm_finish() function when the multipart CCM API is invoked with an oversized tag_len parameter. An attacker can access adjacent CCM context data by supplying a tag_len value that exceeds the size of the internal authentication buffer.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1