CVE-2021-24119
mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.015 · 74 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
In Trusted Firmware Mbed TLS 2.24.0, a side-channel vulnerability in base64 PEM file decoding allows system-level (administrator) attackers to obtain information about secret RSA keys via a controlled-channel and side-channel attack on software running in isolated environments that can be single stepped, especially Intel SGX.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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affected products (14)
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references (24)
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- https://developer.trustedfirmware.org/w/mbed-tls/Patchcnnvd
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releasescnnvd
- https://github.com/UzL-ITS/util-lookup/blob/main/cve-vulnerability-publication.mdcnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00021.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00036.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DRRVY7DMTX3ECFNZKDYTSFEG5AI2HBC6/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EYJW7HAW3TDV2YMDFYXP3HD6WRQRTLJW/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DRRVY7DMTX3ECFNZKDYTSFEG5AI2HBC6/cnnvd
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