CVE-2020-11861 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting all versions of Micro Focus Operations Agent prior to 12.11, allowing an attacker to gain root access. It carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access, but resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), nor is it listed in CISA's KEV catalog, suggesting it is not actively exploited in the wild. Community discussion and media coverage are also minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 12.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:operations_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.