Use of a Cryptographic Primitive with a Risky Implementation Affecting armmbed/mbedtls package, versions [,1.3.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.09% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ARMMBEDMBEDTLS-2365727
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-8627  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1240  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade armmbed/mbedtls to version 1.3.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of a Cryptographic Primitive with a Risky Implementation. PolarSSL 1.3.8 does not properly negotiate the signature algorithm to use, which allows remote attackers to conduct downgrade attacks via unspecified vectors.

References

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