CVE-2021-24119

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

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.

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-2021-24119

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202107-27

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.26.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed2.16.11-0.1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.16.9-0.1+deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed2.16.11-0.1
debian debiansidfixed2.16.11-0.1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.16.11-0.1

References

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