CVE-2021-20295

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (6.5) in qemu qemu. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 22% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2022-04-01
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

qemu:qemu

References

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