Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mbedtls (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-MBEDTLS-1138149
- published21 Mar 2026
- disclosed2 Sept 2020
Introduced: 2 Sep 2020
CVE-2020-16150 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mbedtls package and not the mbedtls package as distributed by Ubuntu.
A Lucky 13 timing side channel in mbedtls_ssl_decrypt_buf in library/ssl_msg.c in Trusted Firmware Mbed TLS through 2.23.0 allows an attacker to recover secret key information. This affects CBC mode because of a computed time difference based on a padding length.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-16150
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2020-09-1
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5OSOFUD6UTGTDDSQRS62BPXDU52I6PUA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IRPBHCQKZXHVKOP5O5EWE7P76AWGUXQJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OD3NM6GD73CTFFRBKG5G2ACXGG7QQHCC/
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00036.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5OSOFUD6UTGTDDSQRS62BPXDU52I6PUA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IRPBHCQKZXHVKOP5O5EWE7P76AWGUXQJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OD3NM6GD73CTFFRBKG5G2ACXGG7QQHCC/