Vulnerability CVE-2020-36475
Published: 2021-08-23

Description:
An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.25.0 (and before 2.16.9 LTS and before 2.7.18 LTS). The calculations performed by mbedtls_mpi_exp_mod are not limited; thus, supplying overly large parameters could lead to denial of service when generating Diffie-Hellman key pairs.

Type:

CWE-131

 (Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
ARM -> Mbed tls 

 References:
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.16.9
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.25.0
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.7.18
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