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TI-2025-32620 Aliases CVE-2025-52496GHSA-qc26-g9mm-wmmf

Mbed TLS before 3.6.4 has a race condition in AESNI detection if certain compiler…

Priority HIGH 69CWE-733Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

Mbed TLS before 3.6.4 has a race condition in AESNI detection if certain compiler optimizations occur. An attacker may be able to extract an AES key from a multithreaded program, or perform a GCM forgery.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00214 11th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Fixed mbedtls (Mbed): 3.6.4

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

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Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
Mbedmbedtlsbefore 3.6.43.6.4Patch availableCNA
  • mbedtls VendorMbed Affected before 3.6.4 Fixed in 3.6.4 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 3.6.4VulnerableArm
  • cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 3.6.4 Vulnerable ·Arm

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA mbedtls (Mbed) Fixed in 3.6.4

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    Mbed mbedtls 3.6.4

    4 records Highest priority Priority HIGH 1 HIGH, 3 LOW

    Other records, highest priority first

    • TI-2025-31614 Out-of-bounds read in mbedtlsPriority LOW 29
    • TI-2025-32621 Mbed TLS before 3.6.4 has a PEM parsing one-byte heap-based buffer underflow, in…Priority LOW 22
    • TI-2025-31613 In MbedTLS 3.3.0 before 3.6.4, mbedtls_lms_verify may accept invalid signatures if hash…Priority LOW 22
    Show all 4 records →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-52496
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-qc26-g9mm-wmmf

References

Exploit 1

  • TI-2025-30320 Use after free in mbedtls CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2019-12830 Buffer overflows were discovered in the CoAP library in Arm Mbed OS 5.14.0. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2019-12829 An integer overflow was discovered in the CoAP library in Arm Mbed OS 5.14.0. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2025-31103 NULL pointer dereference in mbedtls CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2025-31614 Out-of-bounds read in mbedtls CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
  • TI-2025-20584 Use of uninitialized resource in mbedtls CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
See all 10 →

Sources

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