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CVE-2018-20033

CRITICAL

A Remote Code Execution vulnerability in lmgrd and vendor daemon components of FlexNet Publisher version 11.16.1.0 and earlier could allow a remote attacker to corrupt the memory by allocating / deallocating memory, loading lmgrd or the vendor daemon and causing the heartbeat between lmgrd and the vendor daemon to stop. This would force the vendor daemon to shut down. No exploit of this vulnerability has been demonstrated.

Published: Feb 25, 2019 Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CWE-770

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3
Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: NONE User Interaction: NONE Scope: UNCHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

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

Affected Products (2)

Vendor Product Version
flexera flexnet_publisher *
oracle communications_lsms * ≥ 13.1

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-3jq8-j7q6-f6m6

A Remote Code Execution vulnerability in lmgrd and vendor daemon components of FlexNet Publisher...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 9.8 / 10
EPSS Score 3.67%

Top 11% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 40.3 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub