Vulnerability CVE-2020-36476
Published: 2021-08-23

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.

Type:

CWE-668

 (Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
ARM -> Mbed tls 

 References:
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.16.8
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.24.0
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/releases/tag/v2.7.17
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