01 Record
CVE-2020-8239
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: hackerone
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.02% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 80.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-10-28 12:46Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 09:56Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-01-28
- Assigning CNA
- hackerone
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e38422ca67b343067c7bd05b9fbd412548f15d404f3fca2e5f655a0f0bb5af48
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- kb.pulsesecure.nethttps://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44601