CVE-2024-23170
MEDIUMMbed TLS 2.x < 2.28.7 and 3.x < 3.5.2 - Timing Side-Channel Attack via RSA Private Operations
Title source: llmDescription
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 (5)
Core 5
Core References
Vendor Advisory
https://mbed-tls.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2024-01-1/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GP5UU7Z6LJNBLBT4SC5WWS2HDNMTFZH5/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IIBPEYSVRK4IFLBSYJAWKH33YBNH5HR2/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IIBPEYSVRK4IFLBSYJAWKH33YBNH5HR2/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GP5UU7Z6LJNBLBT4SC5WWS2HDNMTFZH5/
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0031
EPSS Percentile
22.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-203
CWE-385
Status
published
Products (2)
arm/mbed_tls
2.0.0 - 2.28.7
trustedfirmware/mbed_tls
3.0.0 - 3.5.2
Published
Jan 31, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026