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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2020-11853"
idYear: 2020
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2020-10-22T20:37:51.000Z"
updatedAt: "2024-08-04T11:42:00.549Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:12.831Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-11853"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-11853.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11853"
title: "Arbitrary code execution vulnerability on multiple Micro Focus products"
summary: "Arbitrary code execution vulnerability affecting multiple Micro Focus products. 1.) Operation Bridge Manager affecting version: 2020.05, 2019.11, 2019.05, 2018.11, 2018.05, versions 10.6x and 10.1x and older versions. 2.) Application Performance Management affecting versions : 9.51, 9.50 and 9.40 with uCMDB 10.33 CUP 3 3.) Data Center Automation affected version 2019.11 4.) Operations Bridge (containerized) affecting versions: 2019.11, 2019.08, 2019.05, 2018.11, 2018.08, 2018.05, 2018.02, 2017.11 5.) Universal CMDB affecting version: 2020.05, 2019.11, 2019.05, 2019.02, 2018.11, 2018.08, 2018.05, 11, 10.33, 10.32, 10.31, 10.30 6.) Hybrid Cloud Management affecting version 2020.05 7.) Service Management Automation affecting version 2020.5 and 2020.02. The vulnerability could allow to execute arbitrary code."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2020.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"2019.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"2019.05","status":"affected"},{"version":"2018.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"2018.05","status":"affected"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"10.63"}],"vendor":"Micro Focus","product":"Operation Bridge Manager"},{"versions":[{"version":"9.51","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.50","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.40","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Micro Focus","product":"Application Performance Management"},{"versions":[{"version":"2019.11","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Micro Focus","product":"Data Center Automation"},{"versions":[{"version":"2019.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"2019.08","status":"affected"},{"version":"2019.05","status":"affected"},{"version":"2018.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"2018.08","status":"affected"},{"version":"2018.05","status":"affected"},{"version":"2018.02","status":"affected"},{"version":"2017.11","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Micro Focus","product":"Operations Bridge (containerized)"},{"versions":[{"version":"2020.05","status":"affected"},{"version":"2019.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"2019.05","status":"affected"},{"version":"2019.02","status":"affected"},{"version":"2018.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"2018.08","status":"affected"},{"version":"2018.05","status":"affected"},{"version":"11.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.33","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.32","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.31","status":"affected"},{"version":"10.30","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Micro Focus","product":"Universal CMDB"},{"versions":[{"version":"2018.05","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"2020.05"}],"vendor":"Micro Focus","product":"Hybrid Cloud Management"},{"versions":[{"version":"2020.05","status":"affected"},{"version":"2020.02","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Micro Focus","product":"Service Management Automation"}]

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