7.5

CVE-2026-34874: trustedfirmware mbed_tls NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-34874DEBIAN-CVE-2026-34874
Published 01-04-2026Last modified 01-04-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-34874 is a high (CVSS 7.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in trustedfirmware mbed_tls. EPSS estimates a 0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.49%
0%100%
Low · +0.21 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3

Timeline

  1. 01-04-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 01-04-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS through 3.6.5 and 4.x through 4.0.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in distinguished name parsing that allows an attacker to write to address 0.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.49%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

41%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.21 pp

From 0.28% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.49%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • mbedtlsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 3.6.6-0.1~deb13u1 | < 3.6.6-0.1
Trustedfirmware1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • mbedtlsAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

5 links