CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-36423

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Published: Jul 19, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.23.0. A remote attacker can recover plaintext because a certain Lucky 13 countermeasure doesnt properly consider the case of a hardware accelerator.

Weakness

The product transmits sensitive or security-critical data in cleartext in a communication channel that can be sniffed by unauthorized actors.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mbed_tls Arm * 2.16.7 (excluding)
Mbed_tls Arm 2.17.0 (including) 2.23.0 (excluding)
Mbedtls Ubuntu bionic *
Mbedtls Ubuntu focal *
Mbedtls Ubuntu groovy *
Mbedtls Ubuntu hirsute *
Mbedtls Ubuntu impish *
Mbedtls Ubuntu kinetic *
Mbedtls Ubuntu lunar *
Mbedtls Ubuntu mantic *
Mbedtls Ubuntu oracular *
Mbedtls Ubuntu trusty *
Mbedtls Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References