CVE-2020-12880

MEDIUM

Pulse Policy Secure/PCS Virtual Appliance <9.1R8 - RCE

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) and Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) Virtual Appliance before 9.1R8. By manipulating a certain kernel boot parameter, it can be tricked into dropping into a root shell in a pre-install phase where the entire source code of the appliance is available and can be retrieved. (The source code is otherwise inaccessible because the appliance has its hard disks encrypted, and no root shell is available during normal operation.)

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/?atype=sa

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 23.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

Status published
Products (4)
ivanti/connect_secure 9.1 (11 CPE variants)
ivanti/policy_secure 9.1 r1 (10 CPE variants)
pulsesecure/pulse_connect_secure < 9.0
pulsesecure/pulse_policy_secure < 9.0
Published Jul 27, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026