CVE-2024-23170

Published Jan 31, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS 2.x before 2.28.7 and 3.x before 3.5.2. There was a timing side channel in RSA private operations. This side channel could be sufficient for a local attacker to recover the plaintext. It requires the attacker to send a large number of messages for decryption, as described in "Everlasting ROBOT: the Marvin Attack" by Hubert Kario.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-20689 An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS 2.x before 2.28.7 and 3.x before 3.5.2. There was a timing side channel in RSA private operations. This side channel could be sufficient for a local attacker to recover the plaintext. It requires the attacker to send a large number of messages for decryption, as described in "Everlasting ROBOT: the Marvin Attack" by Hubert Kario.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Trustedfirmware
Trustedfirmware mbed Tls
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:trustedfirmware:mbed_tls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Trustedfirmware
Trustedfirmware mbed Tls
Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-385
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Nov 4, 2025, 6:23 PM
Reserved
Jan 12, 2024, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 31, 2024, 8:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 7:12 AM