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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-19608

Arm Mbed TLS before 2.14.1, before 2.7.8, and before 2.1.17 allows a local unprivileged attacker to recover the plaintext of RSA decryption, which is used in RSA-without-(EC)DH(E) cipher suites.

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CVE-2018-19608
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1 Nov 2026, 05:51 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-19608

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Dec 2018, 22:29 UTC

Arm Mbed TLS before 2.14.1, before 2.7.8, and before 2.1.17 allows a local unprivileged attacker to recover the plaintext of RSA decryption, which is used in RSA-without-(EC)DH(E) cipher suites.

osv:CVE-2018-19608
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:33.600744988Z",
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