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Vulnerability details: VCID-v9gg-nxfy-wuh7
Vulnerability ID VCID-v9gg-nxfy-wuh7
Aliases CVE-2020-8991
Summary vg_lookup in daemons/lvmetad/lvmetad-core.c in LVM2 2.02 mismanages memory, leading to an lvmetad memory leak, as demonstrated by running pvs. NOTE: RedHat disputes CVE-2020-8991 as not being a vulnerability since there’s no apparent route to either privilege escalation or to denial of service through the bug
Status Disputed
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 2.1
Risk 1.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
System Score Found at
cvssv3 2.3 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-8991.json
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
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epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
epss 0.00156 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-8991
cvssv3.1 2.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 2.1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8991
cvssv3.1 2.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8991
ssvc Track https://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bcf9556b8fcd16ad8997f80cc92785f295c66701
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-8991.json
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8991
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8991
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-04-29T19:46:40Z/ Found at https://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bcf9556b8fcd16ad8997f80cc92785f295c66701
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.37114
EPSS Score 0.00156
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T16:37:35.390783+00:00 NVD CVE Status Improver Improve https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2020-8991 37.0.0
2025-07-31T09:44:20.851536+00:00 Vulnrichment Import https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2020/8xxx/CVE-2020-8991.json 37.0.0