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CVE-2018-20809

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-20809 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) versions 8.3RX prior to 8.3R5 and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) versions 5.4RX prior to 5.4R5. An unauthenticated attacker can remotely crash the web server by sending a specially crafted message. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability poses a significant availability risk as it can lead to service disruption. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:8.3:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:8.3:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:8.3:r2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:8.3:r3:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:8.3:r4:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0272 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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/SA43877
Vendor Advisory