CVE-2020-36475HighMicrosoft CVSS 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Microsoft advisory for CVE-2020-36475

Published
September 3, 2025
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products3

  • azl3 qemu 8.2.0-16 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • cbl2 qemu 6.2.0-24 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cbl2 qemu 6.2.0-24 on CBL-Mariner 2.0

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2020-36475

EchelonGraph score
7.5 HIGH
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.25.0 (and before 2.16.9 LTS and before 2.7.18 LTS). The calculations performed by mbedtls_mpi_exp_mod are not limited; thus, supplying overly large parameters could lead to denial of service when generating Diffie-Hellman key pairs.

Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2020-36475, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (1)