Critical severity · published Aug 6, 2020
CVE-2020-12441
Denial-of-Service (DoS) in Ivanti Service Manager HEAT Remote Control 7.4 due to a buffer overflow in the protocol parser of the ‘HEATRemoteService’ agent
9.8
CVSS
3.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Denial-of-Service (DoS) in Ivanti Service Manager HEAT Remote Control 7.4 due to a buffer overflow in the protocol parser of the ‘HEATRemoteService’ agent. The DoS can be triggered by sending a specially crafted network packet.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.8% · higher than 90% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DM
Desktop&server Management · Ivanti
before 2020.1 · source: NVD
SM
Service Manager Heat Remote Control · Ivanti
7.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12441
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12441
Release Notes
https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/Release-Notes-for-DSM-2020-1
Third Party Advisory
https://insinuator.net/2020/06/security-advisories-for-ivanti-dsm-suite/
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