Description
An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.28.1 and 3.x before 3.2.0. In some configurations, an unauthenticated attacker can send an invalid ClientHello message to a DTLS server that causes a heap-based buffer over-read of up to 255 bytes. This can cause a server crash or possibly information disclosure based on error responses. Affected configurations have MBEDTLS_SSL_DTLS_CLIENT_PORT_REUSE enabled and MBEDTLS_SSL_IN_CONTENT_LEN less than a threshold that depends on the configuration: 258 bytes if using mbedtls_ssl_cookie_check, and possibly up to 571 bytes with a custom cookie check function.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00036.html
Release Notes
https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/releases
Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
https://mbed-tls.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security-advisories/advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2022-07.html
Scores
CVSS v3
9.1
EPSS
0.0166
EPSS Percentile
82.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-125
Status
published
Products (2)
arm/mbed_tls
< 2.28.1
debian/debian_linux
10.0
Published
Jul 15, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026