CVE-2025-49600 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Details

CVE-2025-49600
Vulnerability Scoring

4.9
/10
Medium Risk

The vulnerability CVE-2025-49600 could compromise system integrity but typically requires user interaction to be exploited.

Attack Complexity Details

  • Attack Complexity: High
    Exploits require significant effort and special conditions.
  • Attack Vector: Physical
    Physical access is required to exploit this vulnerability.
  • Privileges Required: None
    No privileges are required for exploitation.
  • Scope: Changed
    Successful exploitation can impact components beyond the vulnerable component.
  • User Interaction: None
    No user interaction is necessary for exploitation.

CVE-2025-49600 Details

Status: Analyzed

Last updated: 🕞 17 Jul 2025, 15:59 UTC
Originally published on: 🕒 04 Jul 2025, 15:15 UTC

Time between publication and last update: 13 days

CVSS Release: version 3

CVSS3 Source

cve@mitre.org

CVSS3 Type

Secondary

CVSS3 Vector

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

CVE-2025-49600 Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2025-49600: In MbedTLS 3.3.0 before 3.6.4, mbedtls_lms_verify may accept invalid signatures if hash computation fails and internal errors go unchecked, enabling LMS (Leighton-Micali Signature) forgery in a fault scenario. Specifically, unchecked return values in mbedtls_lms_verify allow an attacker (who can induce a hardware hash accelerator fault) to bypass LMS signature verification by reusing stale stack data, resulting in acceptance of an invalid signature. In mbedtls_lms_verify, the return values of the internal Merkle tree functions create_merkle_leaf_value and create_merkle_internal_value are not checked. These functions return an integer that indicates whether the call succeeded or not. If a failure occurs, the output buffer (Tc_candidate_root_node) may remain uninitialized, and the result of the signature verification is unpredictable. When the software implementation of SHA-256 is used, these functions will not fail. However, with hardware-accelerated hashing, an attacker could use fault injection against the accelerator to bypass verification.

Assessing the Risk of CVE-2025-49600

Access Complexity Graph

The exploitability of CVE-2025-49600 depends on two key factors: attack complexity (the level of effort required to execute an exploit) and privileges required (the access level an attacker needs).

Exploitability Analysis for CVE-2025-49600

CVE-2025-49600 presents a challenge to exploit due to its high attack complexity, but the absence of privilege requirements still makes it a viable target for skilled attackers. A thorough security review is advised.

Understanding AC and PR

A lower complexity and fewer privilege requirements make exploitation easier. Security teams should evaluate these aspects to determine the urgency of mitigation strategies, such as patch management and access control policies.

Attack Complexity (AC) measures the difficulty in executing an exploit. A high AC means that specific conditions must be met, making an attack more challenging, while a low AC means the vulnerability can be exploited with minimal effort.

Privileges Required (PR) determine the level of system access necessary for an attack. Vulnerabilities requiring no privileges are more accessible to attackers, whereas high privilege requirements limit exploitation to authorized users with elevated access.

CVSS Score Breakdown Chart

Above is the CVSS Sub-score Breakdown for CVE-2025-49600, illustrating how Base, Impact, and Exploitability factors combine to form the overall severity rating. A higher sub-score typically indicates a more severe or easier-to-exploit vulnerability.

CIA Impact Analysis

Below is the Impact Analysis for CVE-2025-49600, showing how Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability might be affected if the vulnerability is exploited. Higher values usually signal greater potential damage.

  • Confidentiality: None
    CVE-2025-49600 has no significant impact on data confidentiality.
  • Integrity: High
    CVE-2025-49600 could allow unauthorized modifications to data, potentially affecting system reliability and trust.
  • Availability: None
    CVE-2025-49600 does not impact system availability.

CVE-2025-49600 References

External References

CWE Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-325

CAPEC Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification

  • Subvert Code-signing Facilities CAPEC-68 Many languages use code signing facilities to vouch for code's identity and to thus tie code to its assigned privileges within an environment. Subverting this mechanism can be instrumental in an attacker escalating privilege. Any means of subverting the way that a virtual machine enforces code signing classifies for this style of attack.

Vulnerable Configurations

  • cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:3.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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