CVE-2024-28960

Publication date 29 March 2024

Last updated 9 October 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS 2.18.0 through 2.28.x before 2.28.8 and 3.x before 3.6.0, and Mbed Crypto. The PSA Crypto API mishandles shared memory.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
mbedtls	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected

Notes

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Affects versions from 2.18.0 until 2.28.8 and 3.6.0. The fix for this issue introduced a regression (GitHub issue 3266) which is yet to be resolved.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
mbedtls	Upstream: 479448d

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.2 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N