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CVE-2020-8219

Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges

Published: Jul 30, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.2
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8219
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/280.html

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

Weakness

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when it has insufficient privileges to access resources or functionality as specified by their permissions. This may cause it to follow unexpected code paths that may leave the product in an invalid state.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Connect_secure Ivanti 9.1 (including) 9.1 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 9.1-r1 (including) 9.1-r1 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 9.1-r2 (including) 9.1-r2 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 9.1-r3 (including) 9.1-r3 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 9.1-r4 (including) 9.1-r4 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 9.1-r4.1 (including) 9.1-r4.1 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 9.1-r4.2 (including) 9.1-r4.2 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 9.1-r4.3 (including) 9.1-r4.3 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 9.1-r5 (including) 9.1-r5 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 9.1-r6 (including) 9.1-r6 (including)
Connect_secure Ivanti 9.1-r7 (including) 9.1-r7 (including)
Pulse_connect_secure Pulsesecure * 9.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

References

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