{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-9849 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2018-9849 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2018-9849 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure, published on 10 May 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2018-9849 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2018-9849 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure, published on 10 May 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-9849 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-9849/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-9849/index.md)","id":"CVE-2018-9849","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-9849/index.md","name":"CVE-2018-9849","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-x545-crqw-4g62"],"analysis":{"component_type":"network_device","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Pulse Secure PCS","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can cause denial of service via crafted XML documents in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure due to improper processing of nested XML entities.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"xxe"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"pulse_connect_secure","vendor":"pulsesecure"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[],"description":"Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure 8.1.x before 8.1R14, 8.2.x before 8.2R11, and 8.3.x before 8.3R5 do not properly process nested XML entities, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and memory errors) via a crafted XML document.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"XML external entity in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-9849","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"pulsesecure:pulse_connect_secure","products":["pulsesecure:pulse_connect_secure"],"type":"xxe","year":"2018"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-9850"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"File upload in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-9848"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2018-05-10","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-5299","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-01-16"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Security feature bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-11580","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-04-06"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Other in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-11582","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-04-06"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Cross-site request forgery in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-11193","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-07-12"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Cross-site request forgery in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-11196","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-07-12"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"Command injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-11581","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-04-06"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Auth bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-3985","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-04-08"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can cause denial of service via crafted XML documents in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure due to improper processing of nested XML entities.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-9849/"}