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FKIE_CVE-2018-0498

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-07-28 17:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:30

Severity

4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Summary

ARM mbed TLS before 2.12.0, before 2.7.5, and before 2.1.14 allows local users to achieve partial plaintext recovery (for a CBC based ciphersuite) via a cache-based side-channel attack.

References

URL	Tags
security@debian.org	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00029.html	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@debian.org	https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2018-02	Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
security@debian.org	https://usn.ubuntu.com/4267-1/
security@debian.org	https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4296	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00029.html	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2018-02	Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://usn.ubuntu.com/4267-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4296	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
arm	mbed_tls	*
arm	mbed_tls	*
arm	mbed_tls	*
debian	debian_linux	8.0
debian	debian_linux	9.0

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CVE-2018-0498 (GCVE-0-2018-0498)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-28 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 03:28

Summary

ARM mbed TLS before 2.12.0, before 2.7.5, and before 2.1.14 allows local users to achieve partial plaintext recovery (for a CBC based ciphersuite) via a cache-based side-channel attack.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

plaintext recovery

Assigner

debian mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4296	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-adviso…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4267-1/	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	ARM mbed TLS before 2.12.0, before 2.7.5, and before 2.1.14	Affected: ARM mbed TLS before 2.12.0, before 2.7.5, and before 2.1.14

Date Public

2018-07-28 00:00

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