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CVE-2025-66442

medium

In Mbed TLS through 4.0.0, there is a compiler-induced timing side channel (in RSA and CBC/ECB decryption) that only occurs with LLVM's select-optimize feature.

Vendor / product: Arm — mbed tls

In Mbed TLS through 4.0.0, there is a compiler-induced timing side channel (in RSA and CBC/ECB decryption) that only occurs with LLVM's select-optimize feature. TF-PSA-Crypto through 1.0.0 is also affected.

CVSS
5.1
5.1 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-04-01 20:16
Modified: 2026-11-04 22:10
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 5 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-04 22:37 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

arm / mbed_tls ≤4.0.0
arm / tf-psa-crypto ≤1.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://mbed-tls.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security-advisories/
Vendor advisory: https://mbed-tls.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2026-03-compiler-induced-constant-time-violations/

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-04 22:37 UTC · record ↗

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