github - ghsa-cgwh-hfr7-38m2

ghsa-cgwh-hfr7-38m2

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-03-25 00:00

Modified

2025-11-03 21:30

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in mbed TLS 3.0.0 and earlier in the mbedtls_pkcs12_derivation function when an input password's length is 0.

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CVE-2021-43666 (GCVE-0-2021-43666)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2022-03-24 00:00

Modified

2025-11-03 19:26

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in mbed TLS 3.0.0 and earlier in the mbedtls_pkcs12_derivation function when an input password's length is 0.

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/issues/5136
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00036.html	mailing-list

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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