DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36478

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-36478
Import Source
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JSON Data
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Upstream
Published
2021-08-23T02:15:07Z
Modified
2025-09-30T03:54:34Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.25.0 (and before 2.16.9 LTS and before 2.7.18 LTS). A NULL algorithm parameters entry looks identical to an array of REAL (size zero) and thus the certificate is considered valid. However, if the parameters do not match in any way, then the certificate should be considered invalid.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / mbedtls

Package

Name
mbedtls
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mbedtls?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.16.9-0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / mbedtls

Package

Name
mbedtls
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mbedtls?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.16.9-0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / mbedtls

Package

Name
mbedtls
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mbedtls?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.16.9-0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / mbedtls

Package

Name
mbedtls
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mbedtls?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.16.9-0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}