Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. It incorrectly uses a revocationDate check when deciding whether to honor certificate revocation via a CRL. In some situations, an attacker can exploit this by changing the local clock.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-36425
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Arm Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. It incorrectly uses a revocationDate check when deciding whether to honor certificate revocation via a CRL. In some situations, an attacker can exploit this by changing the local clock.
osv:CVE-2020-36425
Complete source record
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