CVE-2020-11581 Command injection in n/a
A man-in-the-middle attacker can execute arbitrary OS commands on Pulse Secure clients via the Host Checker applet.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-11581?
CVE-2020-11581 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure, published on 6 Apr 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-78
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-11581?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure, Pulsesecure Pulse Policy Secure.
How do I fix CVE-2020-11581?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-11581 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2020-11581 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11581 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Pulsesecure Pulse Connect Secure
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7xjp-88f4-r966.