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CVE-2020-36476

high

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.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00036.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00021.html

https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.7.17

https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.24.0

https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.16.8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-08-23

Updated: 2023-01-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00184