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CVE-2016-2408

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-2408 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Pulse Secure Desktop before 5.2R2 and Pulse Secure Installer Service before 8.2R2 and below for Windows. This flaw allows a restricted user to gain elevated privileges through unspecified vectors. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), it poses a significant risk, enabling high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.6r16.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pulsesecure:odyssey_access_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0r1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pulsesecure:pulse_secure_desktop:5.0r1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0r2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pulsesecure:pulse_secure_desktop:5.0r2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0r3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pulsesecure:pulse_secure_desktop:5.0r3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0r3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pulsesecure:pulse_secure_desktop:5.0r3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 16,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

kb.pulsesecure.net / articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA40241
Vendor Advisory
kb.pulsesecure.net / articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA40241
securityfocus.com / bid/92692
securitytracker.com / id/1036474