CVE-2020-8218 on CISA KEV

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.

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

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.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• kb.pulsesecure.net — https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44516
• www.gosecure.net — https://www.gosecure.net/blog/2020/11/13/forget-your-perimeter-part-2-four-vulne…

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

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

06Detection

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