Name: CVE-2020-11581: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2020-04-06T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2020-11581, CWE-78, CVSS 8.1, EPSS 0.09839

An issue was discovered in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) through 2020-04-06. The applet in tncc.jar, executed on macOS, Linux, and Solaris clients when a Host Checker policy is enforced, allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to perform OS command injection attacks (against a client) via shell metacharacters to the doCustomRemediateInstructions method, because Runtime.getRuntime().exec() is used.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 8.1
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure	—	Update Pulse Connect Secure to version 8.2R5	Oct 28, 2020	Apr 6, 2020

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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