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In 2025 there have been 0 vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure. Pulse Connect Secure did not have any published security vulnerabilities last year.




Year Vulnerabilities Average Score
2025 0 0.00
2024 0 0.00
2023 0 0.00
2022 4 6.90
2021 12 7.71
2020 17 6.02
2019 21 7.57
2018 9 7.89

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Recent Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure Security Vulnerabilities

An unauthenticated attacker

CVE-2022-35258 7.5 - High - December 05, 2022

An unauthenticated attacker can cause a denial-of-service to the following products: Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) in versions prior to 9.1R14.3, 9.1R15.2, 9.1R16.2, and 22.2R4, Ivanti Policy Secure (IPS) in versions prior to 9.1R17 and 22.3R1, and Ivanti Neurons for Zero-Trust Access in versions prior to 22.3R1.

Incorrect Calculation

An unauthenticated attacker

CVE-2022-35254 7.5 - High - December 05, 2022

An unauthenticated attacker can cause a denial-of-service to the following products: Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) in versions prior to 9.1R14.3, 9.1R15.2, 9.1R16.2, and 22.2R4, Ivanti Policy Secure (IPS) in versions prior to 9.1R17 and 22.3R1, and Ivanti Neurons for Zero-Trust Access in versions prior to 22.3R1.

Resource Exhaustion

Pulse Secure version 9.115 and below may be susceptible to client-side http request smuggling

CVE-2022-21826 5.4 - Medium - September 30, 2022

Pulse Secure version 9.115 and below may be susceptible to client-side http request smuggling, When the application receives a POST request, it ignores the request's Content-Length header and leaves the POST body on the TCP/TLS socket. This body ends up prefixing the next HTTP request sent down that connection, this means when someone loads website attacker may be able to make browser issue a POST to the application, enabling XSS.

HTTP Request Smuggling

In Ivanti Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) before 9.1R12

CVE-2021-44720 7.2 - High - August 12, 2022

In Ivanti Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) before 9.1R12, the administrator password is stored in the HTML source code of the "Maintenance > Push Configuration > Targets > Target Name" targets.cgi screen. A read-only administrative user can escalate to a read-write administrative role.

Use of Hard-coded Credentials

A vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R12.1 could

CVE-2021-22965 7.5 - High - November 19, 2021

A vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R12.1 could allow an unauthenticated administrator to causes a denial of service when a malformed request is sent to the device.

Resource Exhaustion

A vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R12 could

CVE-2021-22935 7.2 - High - August 16, 2021

A vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R12 could allow an authenticated administrator to perform command injection via an unsanitized web parameter.

Command Injection

A vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R12 could

CVE-2021-22936 6.1 - Medium - August 16, 2021

A vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R12 could allow a threat actor to perform a cross-site script attack against an authenticated administrator via an unsanitized web parameter.

XSS

A vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R12 could

CVE-2021-22937 7.2 - High - August 16, 2021

A vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R12 could allow an authenticated administrator to perform a file write via a maliciously crafted archive uploaded in the administrator web interface.

Unrestricted File Upload

A vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R12 could

CVE-2021-22938 7.2 - High - August 16, 2021

A vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R12 could allow an authenticated administrator to perform command injection via an unsanitized web parameter in the administrator web console.

Command Injection

A vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R12 could

CVE-2021-22934 7.2 - High - August 16, 2021

A vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R12 could allow an authenticated administrator or compromised Pulse Connect Secure device in a load-balanced configuration to perform a buffer overflow via a malicious crafted web request.

Classic Buffer Overflow

A vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R12 could

CVE-2021-22933 6.5 - Medium - August 16, 2021

A vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R12 could allow an authenticated administrator to perform an arbitrary file delete via a maliciously crafted web request.

Directory traversal

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Windows File Resource Profiles in 9.X

CVE-2021-22908 8.8 - High - May 27, 2021

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Windows File Resource Profiles in 9.X allows a remote authenticated user with privileges to browse SMB shares to execute arbitrary code as the root user. As of version 9.1R3, this permission is not enabled by default.

Classic Buffer Overflow

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R11.4

CVE-2021-22894 8.8 - High - May 27, 2021

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R11.4 allows a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code as the root user via maliciously crafted meeting room.

Buffer Overflow

A vulnerability allowed multiple unrestricted uploads in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R11.4

CVE-2021-22900 7.2 - High - May 27, 2021

A vulnerability allowed multiple unrestricted uploads in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R11.4 that could lead to an authenticated administrator to perform a file write via a maliciously crafted archive upload in the administrator web interface.

Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres

A command injection vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R11.4

CVE-2021-22899 8.8 - High - May 27, 2021

A command injection vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R11.4 allows a remote authenticated attacker to perform remote code execution via Windows Resource Profiles Feature

Command Injection

Pulse Connect Secure 9.0R3/9.1R1 and higher is vulnerable to an authentication bypass vulnerability exposed by the Windows File Share Browser and Pulse Secure Collaboration features of Pulse Connect Secure

CVE-2021-22893 10 - Critical - April 23, 2021

Pulse Connect Secure 9.0R3/9.1R1 and higher is vulnerable to an authentication bypass vulnerability exposed by the Windows File Share Browser and Pulse Secure Collaboration features of Pulse Connect Secure that can allow an unauthenticated user to perform remote arbitrary code execution on the Pulse Connect Secure gateway. This vulnerability has been exploited in the wild.

Dangling pointer

A vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure / Pulse Policy Secure < 9.1R9 is vulnerable to arbitrary cookie injection.

CVE-2020-8261 4.3 - Medium - October 28, 2020

A vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure / Pulse Policy Secure < 9.1R9 is vulnerable to arbitrary cookie injection.

Classic Buffer Overflow

A vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure / Pulse Policy Secure below 9.1R9 could

CVE-2020-8262 6.1 - Medium - October 28, 2020

A vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure / Pulse Policy Secure below 9.1R9 could allow attackers to conduct Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Open Redirection for authenticated user web interface.

XSS

An XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) before 9.1R9 and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) before 9.1R9

CVE-2020-15352 7.2 - High - October 27, 2020

An XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) before 9.1R9 and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) before 9.1R9 allows remote authenticated admins to conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks via a crafted DTD in an XML request.

XXE

A vulnerability in the authenticated user web interface of Pulse Connect Secure and Pulse Policy Secure < 9.1R8.2 could

CVE-2020-8238 6.1 - Medium - September 30, 2020

A vulnerability in the authenticated user web interface of Pulse Connect Secure and Pulse Policy Secure < 9.1R8.2 could allow attackers to conduct Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).

XSS

A vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure < 9.1R8.2 admin web interface could

CVE-2020-8256 4.9 - Medium - September 30, 2020

A vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure < 9.1R8.2 admin web interface could allow an authenticated attacker to gain arbitrary file reading access through Pulse Collaboration via XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability.

XXE

A vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure < 9.1R8.2 admin web interface could

CVE-2020-8243 7.2 - High - September 30, 2020

A vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure < 9.1R8.2 admin web interface could allow an authenticated attacker to upload custom template to perform an arbitrary code execution.

Code Injection

A code injection vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8

CVE-2020-8218 7.2 - High - July 30, 2020

A code injection vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8 that allows an attacker to crafted a URI to perform an arbitrary code execution via the admin web interface.

Code Injection

A cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8

CVE-2020-8217 5.4 - Medium - July 30, 2020

A cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8 allowed attackers to exploit in the URL used for Citrix ICA.

XSS

A cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R5 on the PSAL Page.

CVE-2020-8204 6.1 - Medium - July 30, 2020

A cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R5 on the PSAL Page.

XSS

An insufficient permission check vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8

CVE-2020-8219 7.2 - High - July 30, 2020

An insufficient permission check vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8 that allows an attacker to change the password of a full administrator.

Incorrect Default Permissions

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8

CVE-2020-8220 6.5 - Medium - July 30, 2020

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8 that allows an authenticated attacker to perform command injection via the administrator web which can cause DOS.

Resource Exhaustion

A path traversal vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8 which

CVE-2020-8221 4.9 - Medium - July 30, 2020

A path traversal vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8 which allows an authenticated attacker to read arbitrary files via the administrator web interface.

Directory traversal

A path traversal vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8

CVE-2020-8222 6.8 - Medium - July 30, 2020

A path traversal vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8 that allowed an authenticated attacker via the administrator web interface to perform an arbitrary file reading vulnerability through Meeting.

Directory traversal

An improper authentication vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1RB

CVE-2020-8206 8.1 - High - July 30, 2020

An improper authentication vulnerability exists in Pulse Connect Secure <9.1RB that allows an attacker with a users primary credentials to bypass the Google TOTP.

authentification

An information disclosure vulnerability in meeting of Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8

CVE-2020-8216 4.3 - Medium - July 30, 2020

An information disclosure vulnerability in meeting of Pulse Connect Secure <9.1R8 allowed an authenticated end-users to find meeting details, if they know the Meeting ID.

An issue was discovered in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R8

CVE-2020-15408 4.6 - Medium - July 28, 2020

An issue was discovered in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure before 9.1R8. An authenticated attacker can access the admin page console via the end-user web interface because of a rewrite.

AuthZ

An issue was discovered in Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) and Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) Virtual Appliance before 9.1R8

CVE-2020-12880 5.5 - Medium - July 27, 2020

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.)

An XSS issue was found with Psaldownload.cgi in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.3R2 before 8.3R2 and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) 5.4RX before 5.4R2

CVE-2018-20814 6.1 - Medium - June 28, 2019

An XSS issue was found with Psaldownload.cgi in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.3R2 before 8.3R2 and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) 5.4RX before 5.4R2. This is not applicable to PCS 8.1RX or PPS 5.2RX.

XSS

An input validation issue has been found with login_meeting.cgi in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure 8.3RX before 8.3R2.

CVE-2018-20813 9.8 - Critical - June 28, 2019

An input validation issue has been found with login_meeting.cgi in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure 8.3RX before 8.3R2.

Improper Input Validation

A hidden RPC service issue was found with Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure 8.3RX before 8.3R2 and 8.1RX before 8.1R12.

CVE-2018-20811 5.3 - Medium - June 28, 2019

A hidden RPC service issue was found with Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure 8.3RX before 8.3R2 and 8.1RX before 8.1R12.

Information Disclosure

Session data between cluster nodes during cluster synchronization is not properly encrypted in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.3RX before 8.3R2 and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) 5.4RX before 5.4R2

CVE-2018-20810 9.8 - Critical - June 28, 2019

Session data between cluster nodes during cluster synchronization is not properly encrypted in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.3RX before 8.3R2 and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) 5.4RX before 5.4R2. This is not applicable to PCS 8.1RX, PPS 5.2RX, or stand-alone devices.

Inadequate Encryption Strength

A crafted message can cause the web server to crash with Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.3RX before 8.3R5 and Pulse Policy Secure 5.4RX before 5.4R5

CVE-2018-20809 7.5 - High - June 28, 2019

A crafted message can cause the web server to crash with Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.3RX before 8.3R5 and Pulse Policy Secure 5.4RX before 5.4R5. This is not applicable to PCS 8.1RX.

Improper Input Validation

An XSS issue has been found with rd.cgi in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure 8.3RX before 8.3R3 due to improper header sanitization

CVE-2018-20808 6.1 - Medium - June 28, 2019

An XSS issue has been found with rd.cgi in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure 8.3RX before 8.3R3 due to improper header sanitization. This is not applicable to 8.1RX.

XSS

An XSS issue has been found in welcome.cgi in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.1.x before 8.1R12

CVE-2018-20807 6.1 - Medium - June 28, 2019

An XSS issue has been found in welcome.cgi in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.1.x before 8.1R12, 8.2.x before 8.2R9, and 8.3.x before 8.3R3 due to one of the URL parameters not being sanitized properly.

XSS

Jonathan Looney discovered that the Linux kernel default MSS is hard-coded to 48 bytes

CVE-2019-11479 7.5 - High - June 19, 2019

Jonathan Looney discovered that the Linux kernel default MSS is hard-coded to 48 bytes. This allows a remote peer to fragment TCP resend queues significantly more than if a larger MSS were enforced. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This has been fixed in stable kernel releases 4.4.182, 4.9.182, 4.14.127, 4.19.52, 5.1.11, and is fixed in commits 967c05aee439e6e5d7d805e195b3a20ef5c433d6 and 5f3e2bf008c2221478101ee72f5cb4654b9fc363.

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Jonathan Looney discovered

CVE-2019-11478 7.5 - High - June 19, 2019

Jonathan Looney discovered that the TCP retransmission queue implementation in tcp_fragment in the Linux kernel could be fragmented when handling certain TCP Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) sequences. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This has been fixed in stable kernel releases 4.4.182, 4.9.182, 4.14.127, 4.19.52, 5.1.11, and is fixed in commit f070ef2ac66716357066b683fb0baf55f8191a2e.

Resource Exhaustion

Jonathan Looney discovered

CVE-2019-11477 7.5 - High - June 19, 2019

Jonathan Looney discovered that the TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_gso_segs value was subject to an integer overflow in the Linux kernel when handling TCP Selective Acknowledgments (SACKs). A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This has been fixed in stable kernel releases 4.4.182, 4.9.182, 4.14.127, 4.19.52, 5.1.11, and is fixed in commit 3b4929f65b0d8249f19a50245cd88ed1a2f78cff.

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) before 8.1R15.1, 8.2 before 8.2R12.1, 8.3 before 8.3R7.1, and 9.0 before 9.0R3.4 and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) before 5.1R15.1, 5.2 before 5.2R12.1, 5.3 before 5.3R15.1, 5.4 before 5.4R7.1, and 9.0 before 9.0R3.2, an authenticated attacker (

CVE-2019-11509 8.8 - High - June 03, 2019

In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) before 8.1R15.1, 8.2 before 8.2R12.1, 8.3 before 8.3R7.1, and 9.0 before 9.0R3.4 and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) before 5.1R15.1, 5.2 before 5.2R12.1, 5.3 before 5.3R15.1, 5.4 before 5.4R7.1, and 9.0 before 9.0R3.2, an authenticated attacker (via the admin web interface) can exploit Incorrect Access Control to execute arbitrary code on the appliance.

In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.2 before 8.2R12.1, 8.3 before 8.3R7.1, and 9.0 before 9.0R3.4, an unauthenticated remote attacker

CVE-2019-11510 10 - Critical - May 08, 2019

In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.2 before 8.2R12.1, 8.3 before 8.3R7.1, and 9.0 before 9.0R3.4, an unauthenticated remote attacker can send a specially crafted URI to perform an arbitrary file reading vulnerability .

Directory traversal

In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) before 8.1R15.1, 8.2 before 8.2R12.1, 8.3 before 8.3R7.1, and 9.0 before 9.0R3.4, an authenticated attacker (

CVE-2019-11508 7.2 - High - May 08, 2019

In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) before 8.1R15.1, 8.2 before 8.2R12.1, 8.3 before 8.3R7.1, and 9.0 before 9.0R3.4, an authenticated attacker (via the admin web interface) can exploit Directory Traversal to execute arbitrary code on the appliance.

Directory traversal

In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.3.x before 8.3R7.1 and 9.0.x before 9.0R3

CVE-2019-11507 6.1 - Medium - May 08, 2019

In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.3.x before 8.3R7.1 and 9.0.x before 9.0R3, an XSS issue has been found on the Application Launcher page.

XSS

In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure version 9.0RX before 9.0R3.4

CVE-2019-11541 7.5 - High - April 26, 2019

In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure version 9.0RX before 9.0R3.4, 8.3RX before 8.3R7.1, and 8.2RX before 8.2R12.1, users using SAML authentication with the Reuse Existing NC (Pulse) Session option may see authentication leaks.

In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure version 9.0RX before 9.0R3.4, 8.3RX before 8.3R7.1, 8.2RX before 8.2R12.1, and 8.1RX before 8.1R15.1 and Pulse Policy Secure version 9.0RX before 9.0R3.2, 5.4RX before 5.4R7.1, 5.3RX before 5.3R12.1, 5.2RX before 5.2R12.1, and 5.1RX before 5.1R15.1, an authenticated attacker (

CVE-2019-11542 7.2 - High - April 26, 2019

In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure version 9.0RX before 9.0R3.4, 8.3RX before 8.3R7.1, 8.2RX before 8.2R12.1, and 8.1RX before 8.1R15.1 and Pulse Policy Secure version 9.0RX before 9.0R3.2, 5.4RX before 5.4R7.1, 5.3RX before 5.3R12.1, 5.2RX before 5.2R12.1, and 5.1RX before 5.1R15.1, an authenticated attacker (via the admin web interface) can send a specially crafted message resulting in a stack buffer overflow.

Memory Corruption

XSS exists in the admin web console in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 9.0RX before 9.0R3.4

CVE-2019-11543 6.1 - Medium - April 26, 2019

XSS exists in the admin web console in Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 9.0RX before 9.0R3.4, 8.3RX before 8.3R7.1, and 8.1RX before 8.1R15.1 and Pulse Policy Secure 9.0RX before 9.0R3.2, 5.4RX before 5.4R7.1, and 5.2RX before 5.2R12.1.

XSS

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