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CVE-2025-52497 (GCVE-0-2025-52497)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-04 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:05
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Summary
Mbed TLS before 3.6.4 has a PEM parsing one-byte heap-based buffer underflow, in mbedtls_pem_read_buffer and two mbedtls_pk_parse functions, via untrusted PEM input.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-08 13:18 UTC
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mbed mbedtls Affected: 0 , < 3.6.4 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:mbed:mbedtls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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