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CVE-2020-36424 (GCVE-0-2020-36424)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-07-19 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 17:30
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Summary
An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. An attacker can recover a private key (for RSA or static Diffie-Hellman) via a side-channel attack against generation of base blinding/unblinding values.
Severity
4.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
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