Name: CVE-2020-36476: Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2021-08-23T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2020-36476, CWE-212, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.00679

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade mbedtls	Nov 29, 2021	Aug 23, 2021
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade net-libs/mbedtls.	Jan 12, 2023	Aug 23, 2021

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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