CVE-2020-8260

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

Description

A vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure < 9.1R9 admin web interface could allow an authenticated attacker to perform an arbitrary code execution using uncontrolled gzip extraction.

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-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type (CWE-434)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Pulse Connect Secure / Pulse Policy Securen/a	9.1R9Affected

References

https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44601
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160619/Pulse-Secure-VPN-Remote-Code-Execution.html
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-8260government-resource

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