CVE-2020-36476

Published Aug 23, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 1.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.24.0 (and before 2.16.8 LTS and before 2.7.17 LTS). There is missing zeroization of plaintext buffers in mbedtls_ssl_read to erase unused application data from memory.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2826-1 mbedtls security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3249-1 mbedtls security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-23962 An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.24.0 (and before 2.16.8 LTS and before 2.7.17 LTS). There is missing zeroization of plaintext buffers in mbedtls_ssl_read to erase unused application data from memory.
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 5:30 PM
Reserved
Aug 23, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 23, 2021, 2:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:15 AM