{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 3 products.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2020-8218 in the wild since at least 7 Mar 2022.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2020-8218 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 7 Sep 2022.","what":"CVE-2020-8218 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure, published on 30 Jul 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-8218 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-8218 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure, published on 30 Jul 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2020-8218 in the wild since at least 7 Mar 2022.\n\nAffected product: Ivanti 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-2020-8218/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8218/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-8218","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8218/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-8218","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-29h7-cpmq-mh8j"],"analysis":{"component_type":"network_device","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Pulse Connect Secure","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Attackers can execute arbitrary code via crafted URIs in the admin web interface of Pulse Connect Secure.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"code_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"hackerone","cpe":[{"product":"connect_secure","vendor":"ivanti"},{"product":"policy_secure","vendor":"ivanti"},{"product":"pulse_policy_secure","vendor":"pulsesecure"}],"cvss":{"score":7.2,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-94","name":"Improper Control of Generation of Code"}],"description":"A code injection vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure \u003c9.1R8 that allows an attacker to crafted a URI to perform an arbitrary code execution via the admin web interface.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":"2020-08-29","github_poc":1,"max_poc_stars":21,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2020-08-29T16:40:35Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/withdk/pulse-gosecure-rce-poc","stars":21,"title":"Tool to test for existence of CVE-2020-8218"}],"tier":"exploited"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Pulse Connect Secure Code Injection","id":"CVE-2020-8218","indexable":true,"kev":{"dateAdded":"2022-03-07","dueDate":"2022-09-07","knownRansomwareCampaignUse":"Unknown","product":"Pulse Connect Secure","requiredAction":"Apply updates per vendor instructions.","vendorProject":"Pulse Secure","vulnerabilityName":"Pulse Connect Secure Code Injection Vulnerability"},"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"ivanti:connect_secure","products":["ivanti:connect_secure","ivanti:policy_secure"],"type":"code_injection","year":"2020"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Missing authorization in Pulse Connect Secure","id":"CVE-2020-8219"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in Pulse Connect Secure","id":"CVE-2020-8217"},"products":["Pulse Connect Secure"],"published":"2020-07-30","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2021-22893","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-04-23"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Arbitrary File Read","id":"CVE-2019-11510","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2019-05-08"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure Command Injection","id":"CVE-2024-21887","kev_date_added":"2024-01-10","published":"2024-01-12"},{"cvss_score":9,"headline":"Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways Stack-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2025-22457","kev_date_added":"2025-04-04","published":"2025-04-03"},{"cvss_score":9,"headline":"Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways Stack-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2025-0282","kev_date_added":"2025-01-08","published":"2025-01-08"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Collaboration Suite Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2021-22894","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-05-27"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Command Injection","id":"CVE-2021-22899","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-05-27"}],"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":"open","licence":"CC0 1.0","name":"CISA KEV"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"active","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-10-21","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Attackers can execute arbitrary code via crafted URIs in the admin web interface of Pulse Connect Secure.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8218/"}