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CVE-2020-8991

LOW
2.3
CVSS Score
Published: February 14, 2020 at 04:27 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:27 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLVM2

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Severity
LOW2.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bcf9556b8fcd16ad8997f80cc92785f295c66701

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

2.3LOW[email protected]
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-401

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