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high 7.5

CVE-2020-36476 json

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.24.0 (and before 2.16.8 LTS and before 2.7.17 LTS)

published 2021-08-23 5 y ago modified 2026-07-23 3 mo ago also EUVD-2020-23962 , JLSEC-2025-211

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • julia MbedTLS_jll 2.16.8+0
  • arm mbed_tls 2.7.17, 2.16.8, 2.24.0
  • mbedtls Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.16.9-0.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36476

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-36476 updated cvss 5.3

mbedtls: missing zeroization of plaintext buffers in mbedtls_ssl_read

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia MbedTLS_jll
<2.16.8+0
2.16.8+0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-212 Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer

References

Sources

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