UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18222

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-18222
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18222.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18222
Upstream
Published
2020-01-23T17:15:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:47:56Z
Severity
  • 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

The ECDSA signature implementation in ecdsa.c in Arm Mbed Crypto 2.1 and Mbed TLS through 2.19.1 does not reduce the blinded scalar before computing the inverse, which allows a local attacker to recover the private key via side-channel attacks.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / mbedtls

Package

Name
mbedtls
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/mbedtls@2.2.1-2ubuntu0.3?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*

2.1.2-1
2.2.0-1
2.2.1-1
2.2.1-2
2.2.1-2ubuntu0.1
2.2.1-2ubuntu0.2
2.2.1-2ubuntu0.3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libmbedcrypto0",
            "binary_version": "2.2.1-2ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libmbedtls-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.2.1-2ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libmbedtls10",
            "binary_version": "2.2.1-2ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libmbedx509-0",
            "binary_version": "2.2.1-2ubuntu0.3"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / mbedtls

Package

Name
mbedtls
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/mbedtls@2.8.0-1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*

2.5.1-1ubuntu1
2.6.0-1
2.7.0-2
2.8.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libmbedcrypto1",
            "binary_version": "2.8.0-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libmbedtls-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.8.0-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libmbedtls10",
            "binary_version": "2.8.0-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libmbedx509-0",
            "binary_version": "2.8.0-1"
        }
    ]
}