CVE-2020-8011

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-02-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

CA Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft/UIM) 20.1, 20.3.x, and 9.20 and below contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability in the robot (controller) component. A remote attacker can crash the Controller service.

Affected products

CA Technologies - A Broadcom Company CA Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft/UIM): through 9.20; from 20.3.0 before 20.4.0; 20.1 — fixed in 20.4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: CA Technologies - A Broadcom Company CA Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft/UIM) 20.4.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://support.broadcom.com/external/content/security-advisories/CA20200205-01-Security-Notice-for-CA-Unified-Infrastructure-Management/7832
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/product-content/status/announcement-documents/2019/ca20200205-01-security-notice-for-ca-unified-infrastructure-management.html
https://support.broadcom.com/external/content/security-advisories/CA20200205-01-Security-Notice-for-CA-Unified-Infrastructure-Management/7832
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/product-content/status/announcement-documents/2019/ca20200205-01-security-notice-for-ca-unified-infrastructure-management.html

Get alerted when CVE-2020-8011 or the next vulnerability affects your stack