CVE-2025-52496 (GCVE-0-2025-52496)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-04 00:00
Modified
2025-07-08 14:29
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-733 - Compiler Optimization Removal or Modification of Security-critical Code
Summary
Mbed TLS before 3.6.4 has a race condition in AESNI detection if certain compiler optimizations occur. An attacker may be able to extract an AES key from a multithreaded program, or perform a GCM forgery.
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Impacted products
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Mbed mbedtls Version: 0   < 3.6.4
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