CVE-2020-36424 Information disclosure in n/a

Medium 4.7 Published Updated

An attacker can recover private keys via a side-channel attack during blinding value generation in Mbed TLS.

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-2020-36424?

CVE-2020-36424 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arm Mbed Tls, published on 19 Jul 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. An attacker can recover a private key (for RSA or static Diffie-Hellman) via a side-channel attack against generation of base blinding/unblinding values.

Weakness: CWE-203

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-36424?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Arm Mbed Tls, Debian Debian Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2020-36424?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2020-36424 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-36424 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Arm Mbed Tls vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36424, GHSA-999g-vph2-wr2c, JLSEC-2025-207, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-36424.

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