CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-8239

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2020-10-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-10-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

A vulnerability in the Pulse Secure Desktop Client < 9.1R9 is vulnerable to the client registry privilege escalation attack. This fix also requires Server Side Upgrade due to Standalone Host Checker Client (Windows) and Windows PDC.

Affected configurations

• pulsesecure pulse secure desktop client (< 9.1) • pulsesecure pulse secure desktop client 9.1

References