# CVE-2025-47917: Mbed TLS before 3.6.4 allows a use-after-free in certain situations of applications that are developed in accordance with the documentation.

- Severity: CVSS 8.9 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB, 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 3.6.4
- Published: 2025-07-20 · Updated: 2025-11-03

## Affected

- Mbed mbedtls: fixed in 3.6.4

## Description

Mbed TLS before 3.6.4 allows a use-after-free in certain situations of applications that are developed in accordance with the documentation. The function mbedtls_x509_string_to_names() takes a head argument that is documented as an output argument. The documentation does not suggest that the function will free that pointer; however, the function does call mbedtls_asn1_free_named_data_list() on that argument, which performs a deep free(). As a result, application code that uses this function (relying only on documented behavior) is likely to still hold pointers to the memory blocks that were freed, resulting in a high risk of use-after-free or double-free. In particular, the two sample programs x509/cert_write and x509/cert_req are affected (use-after-free if the san string contains more than one DN).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mbed mbedtls, upgrade to a fixed version (3.6.4) per the references below.
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## References

- https://mbed-tls.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tech-updates/security-advisories/
- https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls-docs/blob/main/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2025-06-7.md
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52427
- https://github.com/byteReaper77/CVE-2025-47917

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