ALPINE-CVE-2024-23170

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    ALPINE-CVE-2024-23170

    Published: 31 Jan 2024Last Modified: 15 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2024-23170

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS 2.x before 2.28.7 and 3.x before 3.5.2. There was a timing side channel in RSA private operations. This side channel could be sufficient for a local attacker to recover the plaintext. It requires the attacker to send a large number of messages for decryption, as described in "Everlasting ROBOT: the Marvin Attack" by Hubert Kario.

    References: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-23170

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mbedtls

    Purl: pkg:apk/alpine/mbedtls?arch=source

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.28.7-r0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High