CVE-2020-28251: Netscout Airmagnet Enterprise

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NETSCOUT AirMagnet Enterprise 11.1.4 build 37257 and earlier has a sensor escalated privileges vulnerability that can be exploited to provide someone with administrative access to a sensor, with credentials to invoke a command to provide root access to the operating system. The attacker must complete a straightforward password-cracking exercise.

Affected products

• Netscout Airmagnet Enterprise: up to and including 11.1.4

Published 2020-12-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.