CVE-2020-8218

State: Published
Severity: 7.2 High
Published: Jul 30, 2020
Updated: Oct 21, 2025
Reserved: Jan 28, 2020

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-94 Code Injection (CWE-94)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Pulse Connect Securen/a	Fixed in 9.1R8Affected

References

https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44516
https://www.gosecure.net/blog/2020/11/13/forget-your-perimeter-part-2-four-vulnerabilities-in-pulse-connect-secure/
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-8218government-resource

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