CVE-2020-36477: Arm Mbed TLS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. The verification of X.509 certificates when matching the expected common name (the cn argument of mbedtls_x509_crt_verify) with the actual certificate name is mishandled: when the subjecAltName extension is present, the expected name is compared to any name in that extension regardless of its type. This means that an attacker could impersonate a 4-byte or 16-byte domain by getting a certificate for the corresponding IPv4 or IPv6 address (this would require the attacker to control that IP address, though).

Affected products

• Arm Mbed TLS: before 2.24.0 (fixed in 2.24.0)

Published 2021-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.