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.
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"sources": [
{
"modified": "2026-06-17T03:15:34.427Z",
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2020-36476",
"id": "CVE-2020-36476",
"database_specific": {
"status": "Modified"
},
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36476",
"imported": "2026-07-17T20:45:30.793Z",
"published": "2021-08-23T02:15:06.987Z"
}
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"license": "CC-BY-4.0"
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