CVE-2014-8628

high
Published 2015-08-24 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Memory leak in PolarSSL before 1.2.12 and 1.3.x before 1.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of crafted X.509 certificates. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT per ADT3 due to different affected versions. See CVE-2014-9744 for the ClientHello message issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
polarsslpolarssl{"endIncluding":"1.2.11"}
polarsslpolarssl1.3.0
polarsslpolarssl1.3.1
polarsslpolarssl1.3.2
polarsslpolarssl1.3.3
polarsslpolarssl1.3.4
polarsslpolarssl1.3.5
polarsslpolarssl1.3.6
polarsslpolarssl1.3.7
polarsslpolarssl1.3.8

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.