CVE-2020-3996

FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-3996 affects VMware Velero versions prior to 1.4.3 and 1.5.2, stemming from improper management of volume identifiers. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 5.5 (MEDIUM) and could lead to information leakage to unauthorized users, with a local attack vector and low attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 1.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:velero::::::::
		>= 1.5.0, < 1.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:velero::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

1.8

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.35%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

27.5%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-3996Moderate

velero: restored PersistentVolumes may be bound to wrong PersistentVolumeClaims

Oct 21, 2020

References

github.com / vmware-tanzu/velero/security/advisories/GHSA-72xg-3mcq-52v4

Third Party Advisory