Medium severity4.7NVD Advisory· Published Jul 19, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-36424

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.

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Affected products

Arm/MbedTLS2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <2.7.17
- (no CPE)range: <2.24.0
Debian/linux
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Arm/Mbed TLSdescription

Patches

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References

bugs.gentoo.org/740108nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.16.8nvdRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.24.0nvdRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.7.17nvdRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00036.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2020-09-2nvdVendor Advisory

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