CVE-2018-20193 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in certain Secure Access SA Series SSL VPN products, specifically exemplified by the SA-4000. A low-privileged, read-only user can exploit a lack of proper controls to change the administrator's password by manipulating a local copy of a configuration page. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a severe impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability risks, and can be exploited remotely with low complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pulsesecure:secure_access_series_ssl_vpn_sa-4000:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.1r5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pulsesecure:secure_access_series_ssl_vpn_sa-4000:5.1r5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.