CVE-2020-36476

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-212

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Aug 23, 2021
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2020-36476: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix