CVE-2020-36475

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.25.0 (and before 2.16.9 LTS and before 2.7.18 LTS). The calculations performed by mbedtls_mpi_exp_mod are not limited; thus, supplying overly large parameters could lead to denial of service when generating Diffie-Hellman key pairs.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-131

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Aug 23, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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