{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8255 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2020-8255 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2020-8255 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure / Pulse Policy Secure, published on 28 Oct 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-8255 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-8255 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure / Pulse Policy Secure, published on 28 Oct 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8255 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Pulse Connect Secure / Pulse Policy 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-2020-8255/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8255/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-8255","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8255/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-8255","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-4m7r-69vr-gmv2"],"analysis":{"component_type":"network_device","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Pulse Connect Secure","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"An authenticated attacker can read arbitrary files from the Pulse Connect Secure admin interface due to insufficient input validation.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"hackerone","cpe":[{"product":"pulse_secure_desktop_client","vendor":"pulsesecure"}],"cvss":{"score":4.9,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-20","name":"Improper Input Validation"}],"description":"A vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure \u003c 9.1R9 admin web interface could allow an authenticated attacker to perform an arbitrary file reading vulnerability is fixed using encrypted URL blacklisting that prevents these messages.","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":"Path traversal in Pulse Connect Secure / Pulse Policy Secure","id":"CVE-2020-8255","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2020"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"XML external entity in Pulse Connect Secure","id":"CVE-2020-8256"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Path traversal in Pulse Secure Desktop Client","id":"CVE-2020-8254"},"products":["Pulse Connect Secure / Pulse Policy Secure"],"published":"2020-10-28","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Pulse Secure Desktop Cient","id":"CVE-2020-8239","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-10-28"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Path traversal in Pulse Secure Desktop Client","id":"CVE-2020-8254","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-10-28"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Pulse Secure Desktop Client","id":"CVE-2020-8240","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-10-28"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Pulse Secure Desktop Client","id":"CVE-2020-8248","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-10-28"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in Pulse Secure Desktop Client","id":"CVE-2020-8249","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-10-28"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Pulse Secure Desktop Client","id":"CVE-2020-8250","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-10-28"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-15865","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-09-06"}],"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":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-04","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"An authenticated attacker can read arbitrary files from the Pulse Connect Secure admin interface due to insufficient input validation.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8255/"}