CVE-2020-12080 — A Denial of Service vulnerability has been identified in FlexNet Publisher's lma

A Denial of Service vulnerability has been identified in FlexNet Publisher's lmadmin.exe version 11.16.6. A certain message protocol can be exploited to cause lmadmin to crash.

01What is this vulnerability?

A Denial of Service vulnerability has been identified in FlexNet Publisher's lmadmin.exe version 11.16.6. A certain message protocol can be exploited to cause lmadmin to crash.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2021-09-17T17:45:12.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T11:48:58.159Z

09References

• www.tenable.com — https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-28
• community.flexera.com — https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Publisher-Knowledge-Base/CVE-2020-12080…
• community.flexera.com — https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Publisher-News/FlexNet-Publisher-2020-R…