Medium
Security advisory
In Trusted Firmware Mbed TLS 2.24.0, a side-channel vulnerability in base64 PEM file decoding allows system-level (administrator) attackers to obtain information about secret RSA keys via a controlled-channel and side-channel attack on software running in isolated environments that can be single stepped, especially Intel SGX.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-24119
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Trusted Firmware Mbed TLS 2.24.0, a side-channel vulnerability in base64 PEM file decoding allows system-level (administrator) attackers to obtain information about secret RSA keys via a controlled-channel and side-channel attack on software running in isolated environments that can be single stepped, especially Intel SGX.
osv:CVE-2021-24119
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-07-14T13:15:08.1+00:00"
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