CVE-2018-0488

Publication date 13 February 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

ARM mbed TLS before 1.3.22, before 2.1.10, and before 2.7.0, when the truncated HMAC extension and CBC are used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap corruption) via a crafted application packet within a TLS or DTLS session.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
mbedtls	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.2.1-2ubuntu0.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
polarssl	19.10 eoan	Not in release
	19.04 disco	Not in release
	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4267-1
ARM mbed TLS vulnerabilities
5 February 2020