CVE-2020-11862: Insecure renegotiation in SSL protocol caused Denial of service attack in Privileged Account Manager
Telemetry drift only. No threshold crossed and no authority ruling changed.
CVE record loaded 2026-09-20.
What to do now held facts and links
- Upgrade to netiq privileged account manager 3.7.0.2 or later upper bounds of the CVE record's affected ranges
- Record your decision, dated and frozen with today's evidence: patch by a date · mitigated by a compensating control · deferred · accepted the risk · not affected
- Check your version against the ranges this record publishes.
What it is stated by the CNA
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in OpenText NetIQ Privileged Account Manager on Linux, Windows, 64 bit allows Flooding.This issue affects NetIQ Privileged Account Manager: before 3.7.0.2.
- weakness
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
- affected
- OpenText NetIQ Privileged Account Manager
- published ranges
- opentext netiq privileged account manager < 3.7.0.2
- first unaffected version, by branch
- netiq privileged account manager 3.7.0.2
- severity
- 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- assigned by
- OpenText
- published
- 2024-03-13
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Exploit code held, dated
- exploit code
- None held in the PoC-in-GitHub feed. A public repository changes this brief.
What moved held, dated
| date | EPSS | event |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Mar 2024 | 0.00043 | |
| 17 Mar 2025 | 0.00196 | scoring model v2025.03.14 |
| 29 Mar 2025 | 0.00222 | |
| 30 Mar 2025 | 0.00196 | |
| 21 Apr 2025 | 0.00254 | |
| 22 Apr 2025 | 0.00221 | |
| 28 Apr 2025 | 0.00169 | |
| 18 Nov 2025 | 0.00271 | |
| 21 Nov 2025 | 0.00169 | |
| 15 Jun 2026 | 0.007 | scoring model v2026.06.15 |
10 observations held. A step marked with a scoring model moved because the measurement was replaced, not because the vulnerability changed.
Outside the record researched, cited
This section reads the record's references and adds cited findings from outside it. It needs an account. Everything above is held facts and is complete without it.
What would change this brief held, dated
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the catalogue we hold. A listing changes this brief.
- exploit probability
- 0.01 on 2026-06-15 (FIRST's EPSS, a probability and not evidence of exploitation). Next band line: 10% (0.10). Crossing a line changes this brief.
- fix
- Held: netiq privileged account manager 3.7.0.2 (CVE record, loaded 2026-09-20). A newer fix from the CNA or OSV changes this brief.
How to check this
Every value above is held with two dates: when it was true upstream (as_of) and when we recorded it (tx_from). Re-derive the exploit probability as it stood on any date:
SELECT value, source, source_version, as_of, tx_from
FROM volatile_valid_as_of('CVE-2020-11862', '2026-10-03T23:59:59.999999Z', now());Identity above is quoted from the CVE Program record, corpus cvelistv5_20260920, recorded 30 Sep 2026.