Medium
Security advisory
A flaw was found in tpm2-tools in versions before 5.1.1 and before 4.3.2. tpm2_import used a fixed AES key for the inner wrapper, potentially allowing a MITM attacker to unwrap the inner portion and reveal the key being imported. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-3565
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in tpm2-tools in versions before 5.1.1 and before 4.3.2. tpm2_import used a fixed AES key for the inner wrapper, potentially allowing a MITM attacker to unwrap the inner portion and reveal the key being imported. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.
osv:CVE-2021-3565
Complete source record
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