VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-20295

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.30%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.30%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

It was discovered that the update for the virt:rhel module in the RHSA-2020:4676 (https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4676) erratum released as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 failed to include the fix for the qemu-kvm component issue CVE-2020-10756, which was previously corrected in virt:rhel/qemu-kvm via erratum RHSA-2020:4059 (https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4059). CVE-2021-20295 was assigned to that Red Hat specific security regression. For more details about the original security issue CVE-2020-10756, refer to bug 1835986 or the CVE page: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10756.

CVSS 3.1: 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS: 0.30% probability · 22th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-125
Affected: qemu/qemu
Source: secalert@redhat.com

EPSS trend

EPSS 0.3% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10756Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1944075Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220519-0003/Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10756Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1944075Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220519-0003/Third Party Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.