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    CVE-2020-16150

    A Lucky 13 timing side channel in mbedtls_ssl_decrypt_buf in library/ssl_msg.c in Trusted Firmware Mbed TLS through 2.23.0 allows an attacker to recover secret key information. This affects CBC mode because of a computed time difference based on a padding length.

    Published:Sep 2, 2020
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Sep 2, 2020
    EPSS Score:0.00092
    CVSS Score:5.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Arm
    Product
    Mbed Tls
    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux
    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-189 Black Box Reverse Engineering

    Related CVEs

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    CVE-2026-34871 (CVSS 6.7) — An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 3.6.6 and 4.x before 4.1.0 and TF-PSA-Crypto before 1.1.0. There is…
    CVE-2025-66442 (CVSS 5.1) — In Mbed TLS through 4.0.0, there is a compiler-induced timing side channel (in RSA and CBC/ECB decryption) tha…
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    CVE-2025-59438 (CVSS 5.3) — Mbed TLS through 3.6.4 has an Observable Timing Discrepancy.…
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    CVE-2025-48965 (CVSS 4) — Mbed TLS before 3.6.4 has a NULL pointer dereference because mbedtls_asn1_store_named_data can trigger conflic…
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    References

    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00036.html
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5OSOFUD6UTGTDDSQRS62BPXDU52I6PUA/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IRPBHCQKZXHVKOP5O5EWE7P76AWGUXQJ/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OD3NM6GD73CTFFRBKG5G2ACXGG7QQHCC/
    https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories
    https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2020-09-1
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00036.html
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5OSOFUD6UTGTDDSQRS62BPXDU52I6PUA/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IRPBHCQKZXHVKOP5O5EWE7P76AWGUXQJ/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OD3NM6GD73CTFFRBKG5G2ACXGG7QQHCC/
    https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories
    https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2020-09-1

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