Timing Attack Affecting Mbed-TLS/TF-PSA-Crypto package, versions [,1.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MBEDTLSTFPSACRYPTO-13654005
  • published22 Oct 2025
  • disclosed21 Oct 2025
  • creditBeat Heeb

Introduced: 21 Oct 2025

NewCVE-2025-59438  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-208  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Mbed-TLS/TF-PSA-Crypto to version 1.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack via discrepancies in processing invalid padding errors in legacy API (mbedtls_cipher_crypt() and mbedtls_cipher_finish() functions) and in the PSA Crypto API (psa_cipher_decrypt() and psa_cipher_finish() functions) when handling any other padding than NONE. An attacker can infer sensitive information by measuring the time taken to process cryptographic operations.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1