Information Exposure Affecting mbedtls package, versions <2.16.9-0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-MBEDTLS-1325369
  • published23 Jul 2021
  • disclosed19 Jul 2021

Introduced: 19 Jul 2021

CVE-2020-36424  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 mbedtls to version 2.16.9-0.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mbedtls package and not the mbedtls package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. An attacker can recover a private key (for RSA or static Diffie-Hellman) via a side-channel attack against generation of base blinding/unblinding values.

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