User Enumeration Affecting armmbed/mbedtls package, versions [,2.16.7)[2.17.0,2.23.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ARMMBEDMBEDTLS-2368687
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Jul 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jul 2021

CVE-2020-36422  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-203  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade armmbed/mbedtls to version 2.16.7, 2.23.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to User Enumeration. An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.23.0. A side channel allows recovery of an ECC private key, related to mbedtls_ecp_check_pub_priv, mbedtls_pk_parse_key, mbedtls_pk_parse_keyfile, mbedtls_ecp_mul, and mbedtls_ecp_mul_restartable.

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