Privilege Escalation Affecting armmbed/mbedtls package, versions [2.1.0,2.1.17)[2.7.0,2.7.8)[2.14.0,2.14.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Privilege Escalation vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ARMMBEDMBEDTLS-2368693
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-19608  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade armmbed/mbedtls to version 2.1.17, 2.7.8, 2.14.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. Arm Mbed TLS before 2.14.1, before 2.7.8, and before 2.1.17 allows a local unprivileged attacker to recover the plaintext of RSA decryption, which is used in RSA-without-(EC)DH(E) cipher suites.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1