CVE-2020-8254

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

A vulnerability in the Pulse Secure Desktop Client < 9.1R9 has Remote Code Execution (RCE) if users can be convinced to connect to a malicious server. This vulnerability only affects Windows PDC.To improve the security of connections between Pulse clients and Pulse Connect Secure, see below recommendation(s):Disable Dynamic certificate trust for PDC.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-23 CWE-22

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Oct 28, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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