CVE-2018-0498 Information disclosure in ARM mbed TLS before 2.12.0, before 2.7.5, and before 2.1.14

What is CVE-2018-0498?

CVE-2018-0498 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arm Mbed Tls, published on 28 Jul 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-0498?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Arm Mbed Tls, Debian Debian Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2018-0498?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-0498 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-0498 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Arm Mbed Tls

• CVE-2026-34877 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-46393 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-44732 Use after free in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-18187 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-0487 Memory corruption in ARM mbed TLS before 1.3.22, before 2.1.10, and before 2.7.0 Critical 9.8

All Arm Mbed Tls vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2018-0498, DEBIAN-CVE-2018-0498, GHSA-f3f3-2pmh-mpg9, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-0498.