cve/2018/CVE-2018-20031.md

### [CVE-2018-20031](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20031)
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![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=DoS&color=brighgreen)

### Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability related to preemptive item deletion in lmgrd and vendor daemon components of FlexNet Publisher version 11.16.1.0 and earlier allows a remote attacker to send a combination of messages to lmgrd or the vendor daemon, causing the heartbeat between lmgrd and the vendor daemon to stop, and the vendor daemon to shut down.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.