CVE-2025-48965 (GCVE-0-2025-48965)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-20 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:04
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Mbed TLS before 3.6.4 has a NULL pointer dereference because mbedtls_asn1_store_named_data can trigger conflicting data with val.p of NULL but val.len greater than zero.
Severity
4 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-23 14:32 UTC
CWE
- CWE-696 - Incorrect Behavior Order
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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