CVE-2020-36476 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00021.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.5