Security advisory

{
  "id": "0d38afa1273b90d8e5b617d7e7b09bec649462ff3f7dc8c598efae977e4f8c7e",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-47917",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2025-47917",
    "summary": "Mbed TLS before 3.6.4 allows a use-after-free in certain situations of applications that are developed in accordance with the documentation. The function mbedtls_x509_string_to_names() takes a head argument that is documented as an output argument. The documentation does not suggest that the function will free that pointer; however, the function does call mbedtls_asn1_free_named_data_list() on that argument, which performs a deep free(). As a result, application code that uses this function (relying only on documented behavior) is likely to still hold pointers to the memory blocks that were freed, resulting in a high risk of use-after-free or double-free. In particular, the two sample programs x509/cert_write and x509/cert_req are affected (use-after-free if the san string contains more than one DN).",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-47917",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2025-47917",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2025-47917"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "c765c831e5c2a0971410692f92f7a81d6ec65ec2"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3.6.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v2.26.0",
            "mbedtls-2.26.0",
            "v2.24.0",
            "mbedtls-2.24.0",
            "mbedtls-2.19.1",
            "mbedtls-2.22.0d0",
            "mbedtls-2.21.0",
            "mbedtls-2.20.0",
            "mbedtls-2.20.0d0",
            "mbedtls-2.19.0d2",
            "mbedtls-2.19.0",
            "mbedtls-2.19.0d1",
            "mbedtls-2.16.0",
            "mbedtls-2.14.0",
            "mbedtls-2.13.1",
            "mbedtls-2.13.0",
            "mbedtls-2.12.0",
            "mbedtls-2.11.0",
            "mbedtls-2.10.0",
            "mbedtls-2.7.0",
            "mbedtls-2.9.0",
            "mbedtls-2.8.0",
            "mbedtls-2.8.0-rc1",
            "mbedtls-2.7.0-rc1",
            "mbedtls-2.6.0",
            "mbedtls-2.6.0-rc1",
            "mbedtls-2.5.1",
            "mbedtls-2.5.0",
            "mbedtls-2.4.0",
            "mbedtls-2.2.1",
            "yotta-2.3.1",
            "mbedtls-2.3.0",
            "mbedtls-2.2.0",
            "mbedos-release-15-11",
            "mbedos-techcon-oob2",
            "mbedtls-2.1.2",
            "mbedtls-2.1.0",
            "mbedtls-2.1.1",
            "beta-oob-2",
            "mbedtls-2.0.0",
            "polarssl-1.3.9",
            "polarssl-1.3.8",
            "polarssl-1.3.7",
            "polarssl-1.3.6",
            "polarssl-1.3.5",
            "polarssl-1.3.4",
            "polarssl-1.3.3",
            "polarssl-1.3.2",
            "polarssl-1.3.1",
            "polarssl-1.3.0",
            "polarssl-1.3.0-rc0",
            "polarssl-1.2.6",
            "polarssl-1.2.5",
            "polarssl-1.2.4",
            "polarssl-1.2.2",
            "polarssl-1.2.1",
            "polarssl-1.2.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-47917.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:31.050663603Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00013.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00025.html",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/47xxx/CVE-2025-47917.json",
        "https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls-docs/blob/main/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2025-06-7.md",
        "https://mbed-tls.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tech-updates/security-advisories/",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47917"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-416"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "fixed": "3.6.4"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                "strategy": "StandardRange"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/47xxx/CVE-2025-47917.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2025-47917",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 498233,
  "published_at": "2025-07-20T00:00:00+00:00"
}