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CVE-2021-32032

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

In Trusted Firmware-M through 1.3.0, cleaning up the memory allocated for a multi-part cryptographic operation (in the event of a failure) can prevent the abort() operation in the associated cryptographic library from freeing internal resources, causing a memory leak.

Affected products

• TrustedFirmware Trusted Firmware-M: through 1.3.0

References

• https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-M/trusted-firmware-m.git/commit/?id=7e2e523a1c4e9ac7b9cc4fd551831f7639ed5ff9
• https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-M/trusted-firmware-m.git/tree/docs/security/security_advisories/crypto_multi_part_ops_abort_fail.rst
• https://www.trustedfirmware.org
• https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-M/trusted-firmware-m.git/commit/?id=7e2e523a1c4e9ac7b9cc4fd551831f7639ed5ff9
• https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-M/trusted-firmware-m.git/tree/docs/security/security_advisories/crypto_multi_part_ops_abort_fail.rst
• https://www.trustedfirmware.org

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