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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2022-46393

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.28.2 and 3.x before 3.3.0. There is a potential heap-based buffer overflow and heap-based buffer over-read in DTLS if MBEDTLS_SSL_DTLS_CONNECTION_ID is enabled and MBEDTLS_SSL_CID_IN_LEN_MAX > 2 * MBEDTLS_SSL_CID_OUT_LEN_MAX.

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4 Nov 2026, 20:46 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2022-46393

core-osv · Original source

Published 15 Dec 2022, 00:00 UTC

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.28.2 and 3.x before 3.3.0. There is a potential heap-based buffer overflow and heap-based buffer over-read in DTLS if MBEDTLS_SSL_DTLS_CONNECTION_ID is enabled and MBEDTLS_SSL_CID_IN_LEN_MAX > 2 * MBEDTLS_SSL_CID_OUT_LEN_MAX.

osv:CVE-2022-46393
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.28.2 and 3.x before 3.3.0. There is a potential heap-based buffer overflow and heap-based buffer over-read in DTLS if MBEDTLS_SSL_DTLS_CONNECTION_ID is enabled and MBEDTLS_SSL_CID_IN_LEN_MAX > 2 * MBEDTLS_SSL_CID_OUT_LEN_MAX.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-46393",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:39.254731496Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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        "https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.28.2",
        "https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/releases/tag/v3.3.0",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/46xxx/CVE-2022-46393.json",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4BR7ZCVKLPGCOEEALUHZMFHXQHR6S4QL/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6XMKJ5IMJEPXYAHHU56Z4P2FSYIEAESB/",
        "https://mbed-tls.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tech-updates/security-advisories/",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 506833,
  "published_at": "2022-12-15T00:00:00+00:00"
}