CVE-2020-8991

LOW 2.3CVE-2020-8991 · Published 14/02/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-8991 is a LOW (CVSS 2.3) vulnerability affecting lvm2 (redhat).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.33%, higher than 26.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
lvm2 redhat	`= 2.02.00`	No fix yet

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

References

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