CVE-2020-36475 (GCVE-0-2020-36475)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-23 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 17:30
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.25.0 (and before 2.16.9 LTS and before 2.7.18 LTS). The calculations performed by mbedtls_mpi_exp_mod are not limited; thus, supplying overly large parameters could lead to denial of service when generating Diffie-Hellman key pairs.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2269 records in the last 180 days details
References
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