CVE-2020-8254 (GCVE-0-2020-8254)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-10-28 12:46
Modified
2024-08-04 09:56
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-23 - Relative Path Traversal ()
Summary
A vulnerability in the Pulse Secure Desktop Client < 9.1R9 has Remote Code Execution (RCE) if users can be convinced to connect to a malicious server. This vulnerability only affects Windows PDC.To improve the security of connections between Pulse clients and Pulse Connect Secure, see below recommendation(s):Disable Dynamic certificate trust for PDC.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Pulse Secure Desktop Client Version: 9.1R9
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