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Vulnerability details: VCID-ckkh-rwnk-1fgt
Vulnerability ID VCID-ckkh-rwnk-1fgt
Aliases CVE-2020-21490
Summary An issue was discovered in GNU Binutils 2.34. It is a memory leak when process microblaze-dis.c. This one will consume memory on each insn disassembled.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.0
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
System Score Found at
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cvssv3.1 5.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-21490
ssvc Track https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0007/
ssvc Track https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25249
ssvc Track https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=378fd436405b3051df34ac995b2e03fe1f3d1907
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-21490.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-21490
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-21490
2233943 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233943
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2020-21490 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-21490
gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=378fd436405b3051df34ac995b2e03fe1f3d1907 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=378fd436405b3051df34ac995b2e03fe1f3d1907
ntap-20230929-0007 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0007/
show_bug.cgi?id=25249 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25249
USN-6381-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/6381-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-21490
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-10-04T16:16:33Z/ Found at https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0007/
Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-10-04T16:16:33Z/ Found at https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25249
Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-10-04T16:16:33Z/ Found at https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=378fd436405b3051df34ac995b2e03fe1f3d1907
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.04469
EPSS Score 0.00023
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:36:45.119460+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/6381-1/ 37.0.0