Critical
Security advisory
ARM mbed TLS before 1.3.22, before 2.1.10, and before 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via a crafted certificate chain that is mishandled during RSASSA-PSS signature verification within a TLS or DTLS session.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-0487
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
ARM mbed TLS before 1.3.22, before 2.1.10, and before 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via a crafted certificate chain that is mishandled during RSASSA-PSS signature verification within a TLS or DTLS session.
osv:CVE-2018-0487
Complete source record
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"mbedtls-2.1.3",
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"mbedtls-1.3.11",
"list",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:20.361505778Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4267-1/",
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-19",
"https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2018-01",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4138",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4147"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 430251,
"published_at": "2018-02-13T15:29:00.217+00:00"
}