CVE-2020-16150

high

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

A Lucky 13 timing side channel in mbedtls_ssl_decrypt_buf in library/ssl_msg.c in Trusted Firmware Mbed TLS through 2.23.0 allows an attacker to recover secret key information. This affects CBC mode because of a computed time difference based on a padding length.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`2.25.0-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.16.9-0.1`
sid	Fixed	`2.16.9-0.1`
forky	Fixed	`2.16.9-0.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.16.9-0.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.16.9-0.1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.