CVE-2018-20193

HIGH

Secure Access SA Series SSL VPN <5.1R5-4.2 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

Certain Secure Access SA Series SSL VPN products (originally developed by Juniper Networks but now sold and supported by Pulse Secure, LLC) allow privilege escalation, as demonstrated by Secure Access SSL VPN SA-4000 5.1R5 (build 9627) 4.2 Release (build 7631). This occurs because appropriate controls are not performed. Specifically, it is possible for a readonly user to change the administrator user password by making a local copy of the /dana-admin/user/update.cgi page, changing the "user" value, and saving the changes.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106289

Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Dec/37

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0130

EPSS Percentile 66.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-269

Status published

Products (2)

pulsesecure/secure_access_series_ssl_vpn_sa-4000 4.2

pulsesecure/secure_access_series_ssl_vpn_sa-4000 5.1r5

Published Dec 21, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026