CVE-2020-36424: Arm Mbed TLS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. An attacker can recover a private key (for RSA or static Diffie-Hellman) via a side-channel attack against generation of base blinding/unblinding values.

Affected products

• Arm Mbed TLS: before 2.7.17 (fixed in 2.7.17); from 2.8.0, before 2.16.8 (fixed in 2.16.8); from 2.17.0, before 2.24.0 (fixed in 2.24.0)
• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only

Published 2021-07-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.