CVE-2020-28251

HIGH 8.1CVE-2020-28251 · Published 03/12/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-28251 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.1) vulnerability affecting airmagnet enterprise (netscout).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 67.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
airmagnet enterprise netscout	`≤ 11.1.4`	No fix yet

Description

NETSCOUT AirMagnet Enterprise 11.1.4 build 37257 and earlier has a sensor escalated privileges vulnerability that can be exploited to provide someone with administrative access to a sensor, with credentials to invoke a command to provide root access to the operating system. The attacker must complete a straightforward password-cracking exercise.

References

netscout.com/products · Product
netscout.com/securityadvisories · Vendor Advisory

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