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high 7.5

CVE-2020-36423 json

An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.23.0

published 2021-07-19 5 y ago modified 2026-07-18 3 mo ago also EUVD-2020-23951 , JLSEC-2025-206

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 68%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.23.0. A remote attacker can recover plaintext because a certain Lucky 13 countermeasure doesn't properly consider the case of a hardware accelerator.

Patch / fix

  • julia MbedTLS_jll 2.16.8+0
  • arm mbed_tls 2.16.7, 2.23.0
  • mbedtls Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.16.9-0.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36423

Exploit prediction

1.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia MbedTLS_jll
<2.16.8+0
2.16.8+0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

References

Sources

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