CVE-2018-20810 describes a critical vulnerability in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.3RX before 8.3R2 and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) 5.4RX before 5.4R2, where session data exchanged between cluster nodes during synchronization is not properly encrypted. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity, as indicated by its CVSS score of 9.8. While the vulnerability is severe, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:8.3:r1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pulsesecure:pulse_policy_secure:5.4:r1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub 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 records are not available for this CVE.