CVE-2025-27809 (GCVE-0-2025-27809)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-25 00:00 – Updated: 2025-03-25 16:49
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Summary
Mbed TLS before 2.28.10 and 3.x before 3.6.3, on the client side, accepts servers that have trusted certificates for arbitrary hostnames unless the TLS client application calls mbedtls_ssl_set_hostname.
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-1188 - Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mbed mbedtls Affected: 0 , < 2.28.10 (semver)
Affected: 3.0.0 , < 3.6.3 (semver)
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