CVE-2019-18222

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

The ECDSA signature implementation in ecdsa.c in Arm Mbed Crypto 2.1 and Mbed TLS through 2.19.1 does not reduce the blinded scalar before computing the inverse, which allows a local attacker to recover the private key via side-channel attacks.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-18222

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202003-7

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.16.5-1
debian debianbookwormfixed2.16.4-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.16.4-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.16.4-1
debian debiansidfixed2.16.4-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.16.4-1

References

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