Upstream information

CVE-2024-23170 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (CISA-ADP) National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.5 5.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required Low Low
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact None None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1219336 [IN_PROGRESS]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP5
  • libmbedcrypto7 >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedcrypto7-32bit >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedcrypto7-64bit >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedtls14 >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedtls14-32bit >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedtls14-64bit >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedx509-1 >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedx509-1-32bit >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedx509-1-64bit >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • mbedtls-devel >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2024-37
openSUSE Leap 15.5
  • libmbedcrypto7 >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedcrypto7-32bit >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedcrypto7-64bit >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedtls14 >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedtls14-32bit >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedtls14-64bit >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedx509-1 >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedx509-1-32bit >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • libmbedx509-1-64bit >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
  • mbedtls-devel >= 2.28.7-bp155.2.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2024-37
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • libeverest >= 3.5.2-1.1
  • libeverest-x86-64-v3 >= 3.5.2-1.1
  • libmbedcrypto15 >= 3.5.2-1.1
  • libmbedcrypto15-x86-64-v3 >= 3.5.2-1.1
  • libmbedcrypto7 >= 2.28.7-1.1
  • libmbedcrypto7-x86-64-v3 >= 2.28.7-1.1
  • libmbedtls14 >= 2.28.7-1.1
  • libmbedtls14-x86-64-v3 >= 2.28.7-1.1
  • libmbedtls20 >= 3.5.2-1.1
  • libmbedtls20-x86-64-v3 >= 3.5.2-1.1
  • libmbedx509-1 >= 2.28.7-1.1
  • libmbedx509-1-x86-64-v3 >= 2.28.7-1.1
  • libmbedx509-6 >= 3.5.2-1.1
  • libmbedx509-6-x86-64-v3 >= 3.5.2-1.1
  • libp256m >= 3.5.2-1.1
  • libp256m-x86-64-v3 >= 3.5.2-1.1
  • mbedtls-2-devel >= 2.28.7-1.1
  • mbedtls-devel >= 3.5.2-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-13639
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-13640

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP5 mbedtls Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Jan 29 23:00:09 2024
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 17:32:44 2025