CVE-2017-14032

HIGH8.1EPSS 0.27%

mbedtls - security update

Published: 8/30/2017Modified: 12/3/2025

Also known as:DSA-3967-1ALPINE-CVE-2017-14032DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14032

Description

ARM mbed TLS before 1.3.21 and 2.x before 2.1.9, if optional authentication is configured, allows remote attackers to bypass peer authentication via an X.509 certificate chain with many intermediates. NOTE: although mbed TLS was formerly known as PolarSSL, the releases shipped with the PolarSSL name are not affected.

Affected packages (3)

Alpine/mbedtlsfrom 0, < 2.6.0-r0
Debian/mbedtlsfrom 0, < 2.6.0-1
Debian/mbedtlsfrom 0, < 2.4.2-1+deb9u1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH8.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-14032
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14032