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    CVE-2020-36476

    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.

    Published:Aug 23, 2021
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Aug 23, 2021
    EPSS Score:0.0024
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Arm
    Product
    Mbed Tls
    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-168 Windows ::DATA Alternate Data Stream

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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