Timing-based side-channel attack vulnerability in ARM mbed TLS

Timing-based side-channel attack vulnerability in ARM mbed TLS

CVE-2018-0497 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

ARM mbed TLS before 2.12.0, before 2.7.5, and before 2.1.14 allows remote attackers to achieve partial plaintext recovery (for a CBC based ciphersuite) via a timing-based side-channel attack. This vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix (with a wrong SHA-384 calculation) for CVE-2013-0169.

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