CVE-2021-36647

medium

Description

Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in the function mbedtls_mpi_exp_mod() in lignum.c in Mbed TLS Mbed TLS all versions before 3.0.0, 2.27.0 or 2.16.11 allows attackers with access to precise enough timing and memory access information (typically an untrusted operating system attacking a secure enclave such as SGX or the TrustZone secure world) to recover the private keys used in RSA.

References

https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2021-07-1

https://kouzili.com/Load-Step.pdf

https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-01-17

Updated: 2023-01-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium