Vulnerability in Arm Mbed TLS

CVE-2020-36424

An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. An attacker can recover a private key (for RSA or static Diffie-Hellman) via a side-channel attack against generation of base blinding/unblinding values.

EPSS: 0.003 (26.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-36424?
CVE-2020-36424 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arm Mbed TLS, classified under Observable Discrepancy. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2021-07-19.
How severe is CVE-2020-36424?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.
Is CVE-2020-36424 known to be exploited?
2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.