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CVE-2019-18222

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-18222 describes a side-channel vulnerability in the ECDSA signature implementation of Arm Mbed Crypto 2.1 and Mbed TLS through 2.19.1. A local attacker can exploit a flaw in the blinded scalar reduction to recover the private key. Rated Medium with a CVSS score of 4.7, this vulnerability requires high attack complexity and local access to achieve high confidentiality impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_crypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2.7.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.8.0, < 2.16.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.17.0, < 2.20.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.7MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 1,296 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2020-Jan/CVE-2019-18222

The ECDSA signature implementation in ecdsa.c in Arm Mbed Crypto 2.1 and Mbed TLS through 2.19.1 does not reduce the blinded scalar before computing the inverse, which allows a local attacker to recover the private key via side-channel attacks.

Jan 14, 2020

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00036.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3GWQNONS7GRORXZJ7MOJFUEJ2ZJ4OUW
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NGDACU65MYZXXVPQP2EBHUJGOR4RWLVY
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
tls.mbed.org / tech-updates/security-advisories
Vendor Advisory
tls.mbed.org / tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2019-12
Vendor Advisory