CVE-2020-36476

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CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

EPSS

2%p74

Published

Aug 23, 2021 (Aug 23, 2021)

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.

Vendors: arm debian
Products: mbed tls, debian linux
Weakness: CWE-212
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.6%)

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