CVE-2018-19608 Information disclosure in n/a

Medium 4.7 Published 5 Dec 2018 Updated 5 Aug 2024

A local unprivileged attacker can recover plaintext from RSA decryption in Mbed TLS, exposing sensitive data.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2018-19608?

CVE-2018-19608 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arm Mbed Tls, published on 5 Dec 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 2.14.1, before 2.7.8, and before 2.1.17 allows a local unprivileged attacker to recover the plaintext of RSA decryption, which is used in RSA-without-(EC)DH(E) cipher suites.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-19608?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Arm Mbed Tls, Trustedfirmware Mbed Tls.

How do I fix CVE-2018-19608?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-19608 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-19608 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Arm Mbed Tls vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2018-19608, DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19608, GHSA-vqf5-9m3g-rhvm, MGASA-2019-0027, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19608.