CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-36475
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-08-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-131
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.
Affected configurations
• arm mbed tls (< 2.7.18)
• arm mbed tls (>= 2.8.0 < 2.16.9)
• arm mbed tls (>= 2.17.0 < 2.25.0)
• siemens logo\! cmr2020 firmware (< 2.2)
• siemens logo\! cmr2040 firmware (< 2.2)
• siemens simatic rtu3031c firmware
• siemens simatic rtu3041c firmware
• siemens simatic rtu3030c firmware
• siemens simatic rtu3000c firmware
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-131 Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size weakness
References
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-756638.pdf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.16.9 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.25.0 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.7.18 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00036.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-756638.pdf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.16.9 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.25.0 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.7.18 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00036.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory