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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2024-23170

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS 2.x before 2.28.7 and 3.x before 3.5.2. There was a timing side channel in RSA private operations. This side channel could be sufficient for a local attacker to recover the plaintext. It requires the attacker to send a large number of messages for decryption, as described in "Everlasting ROBOT: the Marvin Attack" by Hubert Kario.

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4 Nov 2026, 18:53 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2024-23170

core-osv · Original source

Published 31 Jan 2024, 00:00 UTC

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS 2.x before 2.28.7 and 3.x before 3.5.2. There was a timing side channel in RSA private operations. This side channel could be sufficient for a local attacker to recover the plaintext. It requires the attacker to send a large number of messages for decryption, as described in "Everlasting ROBOT: the Marvin Attack" by Hubert Kario.

osv:CVE-2024-23170
Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:38.464110250Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GP5UU7Z6LJNBLBT4SC5WWS2HDNMTFZH5/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IIBPEYSVRK4IFLBSYJAWKH33YBNH5HR2/",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/23xxx/CVE-2024-23170.json",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GP5UU7Z6LJNBLBT4SC5WWS2HDNMTFZH5/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IIBPEYSVRK4IFLBSYJAWKH33YBNH5HR2/",
        "https://mbed-tls.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2024-01-1/",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 505894,
  "published_at": "2024-01-31T00:00:00+00:00"
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