CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-11539
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure and Policy Secure Command Injection Vulnerability — Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure and Pulse Policy Secure
Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure and Policy Secure allows an authenticated attacker from the admin web interface to inject and execute commands.
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Remediation due
- 2022-05-03
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11539
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2019-04-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
Description
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, the admin web interface allows an authenticated attacker to inject and execute commands.
Affected configurations
• ivanti connect secure 8.1
• ivanti connect secure 8.2
• ivanti connect secure 8.3
• ivanti connect secure 9.0
• ivanti policy secure 9.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r1.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r1.1
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r2.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r2.1
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r3.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r3.2
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r4.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r5.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r6.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r7.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r8.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r9.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r9.1
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r10.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r11.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r11.1
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r12.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r12.1
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r13.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.1r14.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2r1.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2r2.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2r3.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2r3.2
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2r4.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2r5.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2r6.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2r7.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2r7.1
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2r8.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2r9.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2r9.1
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2r10.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2r11.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.2rx
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r1.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r1.1
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r2.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r3.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r3.1
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r4.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r4.1
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r5.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r5.1
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r5.2
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r6.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r7.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r8.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r8.1
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r8.2
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r9.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r10.
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r11.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3r12.0
• pulsesecure pulse policy secure 5.3rx
… and 11 more
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154376/Pulse-Secure-8.1R15.1-8.2-8.3-9.0-SSL-VPN-Remote-Code-Execution.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155277/Pulse-Secure-VPN-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162092/Pulse-Secure-VPN-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108073 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://devco.re/blog/2019/09/02/attacking-ssl-vpn-part-3-the-golden-Pulse-Secure-ssl-vpn-rce-chain-with-Twitter-as-case-study/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://i.blackhat.com/USA-19/Wednesday/us-19-Tsai-Infiltrating-Corporate-Intranet-Like-NSA.pdf Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101 Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
- https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2019-0010 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/927237 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154376/Pulse-Secure-8.1R15.1-8.2-8.3-9.0-SSL-VPN-Remote-Code-Execution.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155277/Pulse-Secure-VPN-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162092/Pulse-Secure-VPN-Arbitrary-Command-Execution.html Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108073 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://devco.re/blog/2019/09/02/attacking-ssl-vpn-part-3-the-golden-Pulse-Secure-ssl-vpn-rce-chain-with-Twitter-as-case-study/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://i.blackhat.com/USA-19/Wednesday/us-19-Tsai-Infiltrating-Corporate-Intranet-Like-NSA.pdf Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44101 Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
- https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2019-0010 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/927237 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-11539 US Government Resource