CVE-2020-8243 is a critical vulnerability affecting Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure and Policy Secure versions prior to 9.1R8.2, allowing an authenticated attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution through the admin web interface by uploading custom templates. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with high privileges and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This flaw is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in the CISA KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community attention and media coverage, despite a lack of public exploit code on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:9.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:9.1:r1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:9.1:r2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ivanti:connect_secure:9.1:r3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.
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.