CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-16261

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Sep 06, 2018 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
6.8
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In Pulse Secure Pulse Desktop Client 5.3RX before 5.3R5 and 9.0R1, there is a Privilege Escalation Vulnerability with Dynamic Certificate Trust.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Pulse_secure_desktop_client Pulsesecure 9.0r1 9.0r1
Pulse_secure_desktop_client Pulsesecure 5.3r4.2 5.3r4.2
Pulse_secure_desktop_client Pulsesecure 5.3r4.1 5.3r4.1
Pulse_secure_desktop_client Pulsesecure 5.3r4 5.3r4
Pulse_secure_desktop_client Pulsesecure 5.3r3 5.3r3
Pulse_secure_desktop_client Pulsesecure 5.3r2 5.3r2
Pulse_secure_desktop_client Pulsesecure 5.3r1.1 5.3r1.1
Pulse_secure_desktop_client Pulsesecure 5.3r1 5.3r1
Pulse_secure_desktop_client Pulsesecure 5.3rx 5.3rx

Potential Mitigations

References