An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.25.0 (and before 2.16.9 LTS and before 2.7.18 LTS). The calculations performed by mbedtls_mpi_exp_mod are not limited; thus, supplying overly large parameters could lead to denial of service when generating Diffie-Hellman key pairs.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-08-23T00:00:00

Updated: 2022-12-26T00:00:00

Reserved: 2021-08-23T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2020-36475

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-08-23T02:15:06.930

Modified: 2023-01-11T17:00:44.207


Link: CVE-2020-36475

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