CVE-2020-36421 (GCVE-0-2020-36421)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-07-19 00:00
Modified
2025-12-03 16:11
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.23.0. Because of a side channel in modular exponentiation, an RSA private key used in a secure enclave could be disclosed.
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Impacted products
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