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ghsa-29h7-cpmq-mh8j

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Published

2022-05-24 17:24

Modified

2025-10-22 00:31

Severity ?

7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

A code injection vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1RB that allows an attacker to crafted a URI to perform an arbitrary code execution via the admin web interface.

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CVE-2020-8218 (GCVE-0-2020-8218)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-07-30 12:53

Modified

2025-10-21 23:35

Severity ?

7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-94 - Code Injection ()

Summary

A code injection vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8 that allows an attacker to crafted a URI to perform an arbitrary code execution via the admin web interface.

References

URL

Tags

	https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44516	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.gosecure.net/blog/2020/11/13/forget-your-perimeter-part-2-four-vulnerabilities-in-pulse-connect-secure/	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	Pulse Connect Secure	Version: Fixed in 9.1R8

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