CVE-2018-0497

high

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

8.0

Description

ARM mbed TLS before 2.12.0, before 2.7.5, and before 2.1.14 allows remote attackers to achieve partial plaintext recovery (for a CBC based ciphersuite) via a timing-based side-channel attack. This vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix (with a wrong SHA-384 calculation) for CVE-2013-0169.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0497

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`2.12.0-1`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.12.0-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.12.0-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.12.0-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.12.0-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.12.0-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0497

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