{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2020-8243 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2020-8243 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 3 May 2022.","what":"CVE-2020-8243 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure, published on 29 Sep 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-8243 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-8243 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure, published on 29 Sep 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2020-8243 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021.\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-2020-8243/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8243/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-8243","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8243/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-8243","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-87wj-wph2-98g5"],"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":"An authenticated attacker can upload a custom template to the admin interface to execute arbitrary code on Pulse Connect Secure devices.","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"}],"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 vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure \u003c 9.1R8.2 admin web interface could allow an authenticated attacker to upload custom template to perform an arbitrary code execution.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"exploited"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Code Execution","id":"CVE-2020-8243","indexable":true,"kev":{"dateAdded":"2021-11-03","dueDate":"2022-05-03","knownRansomwareCampaignUse":"Unknown","product":"Pulse Connect Secure","requiredAction":"Apply updates per vendor instructions.","vendorProject":"Ivanti","vulnerabilityName":"Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure Code Execution 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":1,"next":{"headline":"Remote Memory Exposure in bl","id":"CVE-2020-8244"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"SQL injection in ExpressionEngine","id":"CVE-2020-8242"},"products":["Pulse Connect Secre"],"published":"2020-09-29","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)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"active","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-10-21","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"An authenticated attacker can upload a custom template to the admin interface to execute arbitrary code on Pulse Connect Secure devices.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8243/"}