What is CVE-2018-19608?

CVE-2018-19608 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arm Mbed TLS, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2018-12-05.

How severe is CVE-2018-19608?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Arm Mbed TLS

CVE-2018-19608

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.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.003 (26.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-19608?: CVE-2018-19608 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arm Mbed TLS, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2018-12-05.
How severe is CVE-2018-19608?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.