NULL pointer dereference in Unified Infrastructure Management - CVE-2020-8011
Published: February 18, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU25416
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-8011
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the robot (controller) component. A remote attacker can crash the Controller service.
The robot versions below 7.97HF8, 9.20HF9 and 9.20SHF9 are affected.
Affected software
Unified Infrastructure Management
How to mitigate CVE-2020-8011
Vendor recommends to update to the following solutions to address the vulnerability:
robot_update patches 7.97HF8 (or above), 9.20HF9 (or above), and 9.20SHF9 (or above)